On 2/19/11 6:13 AM, Peter Hofmann wrote:
> Aha, I see. I've read that part about "strictly textual" and "performed
> before all other expansions" in the manual, but I didn't realize all the
> consequences. This means that my quotes get interpreted *after* the
> brace expansion is done, right?
We
Hi,
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 07:26:18PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Brace expansion is strictly textual, is performed before all other
> expansions, and doesn't understand a whole lot of shell syntax.
> It does understand a little about quoted strings, so what you get is
>
> echo "$(echo "1")" "$(e