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Tue, 08 Jan 2008

Bash Puzzles - Brace Expansion
There is nothing like other peoples code to highlight all those little gaps in your knowledge of a programming language. I know what the first one does:


$ mkdir -p {projectone_,projecttwo_,projectthree_}log

$ ls -1
projectone_log
projectthree_log
projecttwo_log

And I was a confident (and a little bit happy) about knowing what the second one does:


$ mkdir -p {project_one,}log

$ ls -1
log
project_onelog

But I had no clue about this one. And my guess (that it would be treated as a single element and expand to 'projectone_log') was very wrong:


$ mkdir -p {projectone_}log

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