From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:39:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add test case for ls-files --with-head
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710032238080.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071003202157.GA28043@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> > for i in {1,2,3,4,5}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
> > do
> >   ...
> > done
> 
> $ dash
> $ for i in {1,2,3,4,5}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}; do echo $i; done
> {1,2,3,4,5}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
> $

AFAIK this is the same as bash (I thought I was the last one to make that 
mistake 10 years ago).  As long as you do not have _files_ matching the 
pattern, it does not expand.  And besides, this is too complicated anyway: 
[1-5] is much shorter than {1,2,3,4,5}.

Ciao,
Dscho