Path: csiph.com!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Robert Elz Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: unquoted expansion not working (was Re: Not missing, but very hard to see) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 06:12:53 +0700 Lines: 20 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5DF4BDF0.6000402@tlinx.org> <662e2328-f331-c554-afcf-fd3819f6beab@case.edu> <20191206055304.076d6115afa3a4f2a6a21c34@schrader-schulte.de> <5b5064a8-7175-42e7-1eb5-6374dee6c11e@redhat.com> <21761e28-c496-ff67-d7b7-628c9325085f@iki.fi> <9dd3a388-39b1-c059-de99-813f1e411764@case.edu> <5DF2987E.5000309@tlinx.org> <568aeaaa-22b3-c7b9-0e18-a92bef6d2ffb@iki.fi> <5DF2FE31.9070406@tlinx.org> <0ff3a920-94c2-b0c9-5631-0964955657aa@archlinux.org> <5DF3D78B.4090208@tlinx.org> <20191213184213.GO851@eeg.ccf.org> <17197.1576365173@jinx.noi.kre.to> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1576365213 25247 209.51.188.17 (14 Dec 2019 23:13:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org To: L A Walsh Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <5DF4BDF0.6000402@tlinx.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:3c8:9009:181::2 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <17197.1576365173@jinx.noi.kre.to> X-Mailman-Original-References: <5DF4BDF0.6000402@tlinx.org> <662e2328-f331-c554-afcf-fd3819f6beab@case.edu> <20191206055304.076d6115afa3a4f2a6a21c34@schrader-schulte.de> <5b5064a8-7175-42e7-1eb5-6374dee6c11e@redhat.com> <21761e28-c496-ff67-d7b7-628c9325085f@iki.fi> <9dd3a388-39b1-c059-de99-813f1e411764@case.edu> <5DF2987E.5000309@tlinx.org> <568aeaaa-22b3-c7b9-0e18-a92bef6d2ffb@iki.fi> <5DF2FE31.9070406@tlinx.org> <0ff3a920-94c2-b0c9-5631-0964955657aa@archlinux.org> <5DF3D78B.4090208@tlinx.org> <20191213184213.GO851@eeg.ccf.org> Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:15734 Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 02:48:16 -0800 From: L A Walsh Message-ID: <5DF4BDF0.6000402=40tlinx.org> =7C it could break existing scripts that Scripts should not be using brace expansion in the first place, it is useful to save typing for interactive shells, but (whatever quoting is or is not donw, and whatever ranges are supported)) it is just a lexic= al expansion, which can easily be done in the script source, if you want to assign that 'Z' .. 'a' range to an array, simply list the characters you want (quoted as needed) and assign them. That causes less problems long= term, and is more likely to be portable to more shells (even shells that do brace expansion don't all do it in exactly the same way). kre