Re: brace expansion not happening

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos Carvalho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I need to do an expansion in more than one place, so I'd like to put
> the pattern in a variable. However it's not equivalent:
[...]
> Putting in a variable:
> 
> % list=a/{b,c}-d
> %  for i in $list; do echo $i; done
> a/{b,c}-d

Use an array:
% list=(a/{b,c}-d)

The rest just work, just as you wrote it.

Regards, Frank

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