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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Can I use a variable with brace expansion? Post 302544038 by DeCoTwc on Tuesday 2nd of August 2011 06:38:49 PM
Old 08-02-2011
Can I use a variable with brace expansion?
So, I was bored on the train today, and was thinking of ways to loop through elements of an array. I came up with the following simple script, but it doesn't work as brace expansion doesn't seem to work with variables. Is there something I'm missing, or does the shell just not work like this?

Code:
(18:33:24\[D@DeCoWork15)
[~]$ cat prac.sh
#!/bin/bash

x=(aa bb cc dd ee ff gg hh ii jj kk ll mm nn oo pp qq rr ss tt uu vv ww xx  yy zz)
CAP=${#x[*]}
echo $CAP
for i in {1..$CAP};do echo ${x[${i}]};done

(18:35:19\[D@DeCoWork15)
[~]$ bash prac.sh
26
prac.sh: line 6: {1..26}: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "{1..26}")

So, clearly it is recognizing the variable, but it's not expanding the 1..26. Any thoughts?

Also, I'm aware that this will leave me with the issue that I'm expanding 1-26 when what I really want is 0-25...but I'll burn that bridge later.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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