Bash Brace Expansion

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Fri, 05/30/2008 - 09:47

Bash brace expansion is used to generate stings at the command line or in a shell script. The syntax for brace expansion consists of either a sequence specification or a comma separated list of items inside curly braces "{}".

A sequence consists of a starting and ending item separated by two periods "..".

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