Re^2: Working with Binary Numbers

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Re^3: Working with Binary Numbers by blokhead (Monsignor) on Sep 25, 2007 at 14:30 UTC
This rule does not apply to `{x,y,z}` alternations in the `glob` pattern. The documentation I could find isn't great on this point, and its language is generally in terms of filenames. But I'm 99% sure it's not a bug. I've seen tons of uses of `glob` in this way on PM! BTW, the same behavior should happen in your shell (though it may be a different glob under the hood). `$ ls {x,y,z} ls: x: No such file or directory ls: y: No such file or directory ls: z: No such file or directory` [download] First, `glob` expands `{...}` and then it checks the filesystem to expand `` and `?` and the resulting pattern(s). `$ ls {p,q,r} ls: p: No such file or directory ls: q: No such file or directory ls: *r: No such file or directory` [download] blokhead	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Working with Binary Numbers by salva (Canon) on Sep 25, 2007 at 14:50 UTC
That's what bash docs says about the matter: Read more... (5 kB)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Working with Binary Numbers ({not,here}) by tye (Sage) on Sep 25, 2007 at 15:18 UTC
Just to be clearer, if you read the first two sentences of the long section you quoted, it answers your original concern: Brace expansion is a mechanism by which arbitrary strings may be generated. This mechanism is similar to pathname expansion, but the filenames generated need not exist. So, no, this is not a bug. - tye	[reply]
Re^5: Working with Binary Numbers by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 25, 2007 at 15:19 UTC
If `bash` had any bearing in the matter — `glob` is based on `csh`'s expansion mechanism — it seems to me you just disproved yourself. "the filenames generated need not exist."	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Working with Binary Numbers by salva (Canon) on Sep 25, 2007 at 15:36 UTC
Re^7: Working with Binary Numbers by shoness (Friar) on Sep 25, 2007 at 17:52 UTC
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