On 4/30/17 11:23 AM, omasmotorrad wrote:
> Why is it that one cannot change the delimiter for the
> words generated during brace expansion?
Because they are separate words that are expanded individually, not
a single word that undergoes word splitting. They end up being
separate arguments to, e.g., `echo'.
The words appear to be space-separated here because `echo' separates
its arguments with spaces on output (as it has done since time
immemorial).
>
> On stackexchange, there too are questions
> regarding this. Personally I’d like to be able to write
> $ IFS=„,“ echo a{b,c,d}
> rather than
> $ echo a{b,c,d} | tr „ „ „,“
If I were going to do it, I'd use a shell function:
separate_with_commas()
{
local IFS=','
echo "$*"
}
separate_with_commas a{b,c,d}
The general problem you're trying to solve is basically how to turn
multiple words into a single string, so maybe solve that more directly.
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