Ksh use (was Re: Should ``csh be part of ...)

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <14528 at brl-adm.ARPA>, rbj at icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
< 
<    In article <2199 at quacky.mips.COM> dce at mips.COM (David Elliott) writes:
<    >   Does ksh have anything like {}?  (In case you don't know, "-r1.{2,4}"
<    >   expands to "-r1.2 -r1.4".)
< 
< Bourne shell (and I assume ksh) use {} to denote a list of commands,
< similar to a subshell, but executed in the same shell. Thus, I doubt
< that the pattern generation will ever be implemented unless they can
< find some free meta-characters. A pity, as I am attached to this feature
< as well. I do `mv foo.c{,.old}' etc all the time.

Note that the Sys V Bourne shell (and ksh) only recognizes { and }
specially when used as the first word of a command, when standing
alone, and when not quoted.  This context sensitivity would seem
to leave room for the very helpful file.{foo,bar} notation of csh.

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