Path: csiph.com!3.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: L A Walsh Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: unquoted expansion not working (was Re: Not missing, but very hard to see) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 09:40:44 -0800 Lines: 28 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> <5DF6701C.7040202@tlinx.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1576431653 28236 209.51.188.17 (15 Dec 2019 17:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: Robert Elz To: bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Thunderbird In-Reply-To: <17197.1576365173@jinx.noi.kre.to> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 173.164.175.65 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: <5DF6701C.7040202@tlinx.org> 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> <17197.1576365173@jinx.noi.kre.to> Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:15735 On 2019/12/14 15:12, Robert Elz wrote: > From: L A Walsh > > | it could break existing scripts that > > Scripts _/should /_not be using brace expansion in the first place, ------ "Should" is about wishful thinking, not reality. What you or I think "should" be done may be depressingly or surprisingly different from what actually is done. > it is useful to save typing for interactive shells, ---- I wouldn't know, since it doesn't take much for me to re-edit a line and press 'v' to have it in an editor which I've found is usually the prudent thing to do, since I can start a more comfortable editor and not risk losing everything in the re-edit buff due to a misplaced quote among other reasons. The main reason is about what may be useful and the difficulty in supporting a ton of small ranges accommodating the rest of Unicode's alpha-numerics, or not having to worry about ranges so much as just proper quoting for the, relative, handful of meta characters needing it.