On 4/29/21 12:59 PM, Tom (AST) Watson wrote:
All...
I've resigned to having it the way it is, but I note that the solution doesn't
need the backslash escape:
[tsw@box6 ~]$ k=10
[tsw@box6 ~]$ eval echo {1..$k}
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
This one doesn't, but putting in the slash skips the first brac
; as they show themselves.
Thanks for the input. It has been helpful.
...Tom
-Original Message-
From: Chet Ramey
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2021 07:46
To: Ilkka Virta
Cc: chet.ra...@case.edu; Tom (AST) Watson ;
bug-bash@gnu.org
Subject: [External] Re: Brace expansion ordering vs. paramete
On 4/29/21 8:12 AM, Ilkka Virta wrote:
Maybe, but it's never worked that way and was never intended to. You can
get what you need using eval:
eval echo \{1..${i}}
BTW, was there some background to why they're ordered like this? I'm not
sure if I have heard the story, and didn't s
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 03:12:09PM +0300, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> BTW, was there some background to why they're ordered like this? I'm not
> sure if I have heard the story, and didn't see anything about it in Greg's
> wiki or bash-hackers.org (of course they tell the "what", but not the
> "why"). I di
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 4:18 AM Chet Ramey wrote:
> Maybe, but it's never worked that way and was never intended to. You can
> get what you need using eval:
>
> eval echo \{1..${i}}
>
BTW, was there some background to why they're ordered like this? I'm not
sure if I have heard the story, and did
