Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to Andreas Schwab on 4/18/2007 4:01 AM: >> Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Well, no, because bash expands *parameters*, not words. So the prefix is >>> "<(cat /etc/", and the suffix is ")". >> >> But that would not be a *strict textual* expansion. > > According to 'man bash', brace expansion is documented as being able to > expand one word into many.
The documentation talks about strings, not words. > <(...) forms a single word, even when ... contains unquoted spaces. That requires syntactic interpretation to the context of the expansion, which is explicitly excluded. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
