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Re: order of processing in brace expansion

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From: Allan Poindexter <apoindex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: order of processing in brace expansion
Date: 11 May 2001 13:22:31 -0600
In-reply-to: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of "Wed, 2 May 2001 16:30:10 +0000"
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 Bart> There's no mention of brace expansion there anywhere, and braces are
 Bart> not expanded in "a pattern" for most senses of "pattern" elsewhere in
 Bart> the doc; on the other hand, for command substitutions, it's not even
 Bart> supposed to tokenize a leading `~' or `=', which it obviously does
 Bart> anyway:

I confess that conforming to the docs is a good thing.  OTOH I don't see any
way to parameterize patterns for brace expansion if this is done.
(E.g. setting a parameter in a script to a pattern that will be used in brace
expansion in several places and which may need to be changed from time to
time.  IMO is a good thing to be able to do).  Am I overlooking something?  Is
there some other way to do this?

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References:
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  - From: Peter Stephenson
- Re: order of processing in brace expansion
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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