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Re: Backslash missing in brace expansion

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On 12/5/19 10:53 PM, Martin Schulte wrote:

>>> (2019-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ echo ${BASH_VERSINFO[@]}
>>> 4 4 12 1 release x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>> $ set -x
>>> $ echo {Z..a}
>>> + echo Z '[' '' ']' '^' _ '`' a
>>> Z [  ] ^ _ ` a
>>>
>>> It looks as if the backslash (between [ and ] in ASCII code) is
>>> missing in brace expansion. The same behaviour seems to be found in
>>> bash 5.0.
>>
>> It's an unquoted backslash, which is removed by quote removal when the
>> words are expanded. Look at the extra space between `[' and `]'; that's
>> the null argument resulting from the unquoted backslash.
> 
> Yes - sure. But then I'm wondering why the unquoted backtick doesn't
> start command substitution:

It may be version dependent:

$ echo ${BASH_VERSINFO[@]}
5 0 7 1 release x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu

$ echo b{Z..a}d
bash: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `d

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Re: Backslash missing in brace expansion Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2019-12-06 13:36 -0600

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