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Re: How does {x..y} supposed to work?


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: How does {x..y} supposed to work?
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 16:32:40 -0400
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On 5/14/21 1:32 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:

Also, both letter and alphabetic character are factually inaccurate.
A brace expansion may include non-alphabetic characters, as long as
they aren't first or last in the sequence.

Yes, that's what the documentation says. It only describes the sequence
endpoints, and that's what we're talking about here. I think I'm going
to go with `letter'.

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