On 1/16/12 2:14 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Someone in IRC was doing an overly complex command invovling grep "^.{1,8}"
> inside a command substitution, and we believe he stumbled upon a bash bug.
> I've simplified it down to this:
>
> $ echo "$(echo "a{1,8}")"
> a1 a8
>
> The curly braces here sh
Someone in IRC was doing an overly complex command invovling grep "^.{1,8}"
inside a command substitution, and we believe he stumbled upon a bash bug.
I've simplified it down to this:
$ echo "$(echo "a{1,8}")"
a1 a8
The curly braces here should not be treated as a brace expansion, since
they're o