A sequence expression takes the form {x..y}, where x and y are either integers or single characters. When integers are supplied, the expression expands to each number between x and y, inclusive. When characters are supplied, the expression expands to each character lexicographically between x and y, inclusive. Note that both x and y must be of the same type.
Brace expansion is performed before any other expansions, and any characters special to other expansions are preserved in the result. It is strictly textual.
There is no 26 there when the brace expansion is attempted. The 1 and the literal string "$CAP" are an invalid sequence expression at that stage.
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Brace expansion is an extension to the POSIX sh standard. Different posix-like shells perform it at different times. bash performs it before all other expansions while ksh leaves it for much later (after parameter expansion and command substitution and field splitting).
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I forgot to mention, if you want to loop over the elements of an array, there's a much simpler way to do it:
The * and @ subscripts are analogous to the $* and $@ special parameters used by the shell to handle script arguments.
We have a script that runs in ksh on HP-UX 11.11. It takes three arguments. The last argument can be a filename or wildcard character. For example:
script -s hello -t goodbye '*.d*'
In a case such as this, I would wrap single quotes around the final argument because I dont want the shell to... (4 Replies)
#!/usr/bin/bash
if
then
echo "Not valid arguments entered. Just username should be entered."
else
USER_NAME=$1
FILE_NAME=$USER_NAME.info
UNN=STUDIN\\\\$1
echo $UNN
last STUDIN\\\\$1
last UNN
If I type `last STUDIN\\eip060` it works but if I try to expand it with variable it is... (5 Replies)
I have a script that takes an option for server pools to run the script against. The option is given as a comma separated list (ie, -p 201,204,301).
I'm using eval and brace expansion to get those pool numbers into an array. It works fine unless only 1 pool number is given. Here's the code:
... (5 Replies)
I'm in the habit of using the following type of loop structure:
for num in `seq $1 $2`
do
command
doneWhile `seq $1 $2` is not exactly a huge resource hog, I would like to learn a better way. It seems that brace expansion is a good way to go:
for num in {3..10}The problem, though, is... (2 Replies)
There is a file as:
....... some text
timing () {
capacitance : 9.0;
incap : 0.8;
cell_fall () {
values ("8.9","7.8");
}
}
........ some more text
#######
Is there a way to directly find closing brace "{" of timing () block "{" ? (2 Replies)
i write a batch file , here is the content.
dirname='date +%Y-%m-%d'
mkdir dirname
but it doen's work, it just create a folder named date and +%Y-%m-%d.
i have tried run the command seperately in the bash prompt. after the first
sentence executed , i use $dirname to watch the value of... (4 Replies)
The objective of the code below is to create sed script to be later executed. However, it bonks because $ARCHIVENAME expands to a directory specification so the forward slashes cause problems. I can think of a few solutions that would involve redesigning the process, but I'm hoping there might be... (4 Replies)
Hi forum,
in my bash script I've many lines executing commands with redirection to log files.
...
xyz_cmd 2>&1 > $BASENAME.$LINENO
The trailing part of these lines doesn't look nice and I like to put it into a variable.
The (not working) idea is something like that
... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I use a lot this command to edit a bunch of files at once
find . -name filename" | xargs -ifoo sh -c 'echo foo ; sed "s/pattern1/pattern2/" foo > ./tmp ; mv -f ./tmp foo'
I'm trying to put a function on my .bashrc file.
function loopSed()
{
local filename=$1
local... (2 Replies)
Hello.
The file /etc/fstab contains
UUID=957c3295-9944-1593-82e2-2b90dede4312 / ext4 noatime,discard,acl,user_xattr 1 1
I fill a variable
SOME_LINE=$( cat /etc/fstab | grep \/\..*ext4 | grep noatime,discard )echo $SOME_LINE... (3 Replies)
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kpsewhich
KPSEWHICH(1) General Commands Manual KPSEWHICH(1)NAME
kpsewhich - standalone path lookup and and expansion for kpathsea
SYNOPSIS
kpsewhich [options] [filenames]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
Kpathsea: A library for path searching.
kpsewhich is used as a standalone front-end of the kpathsea library that can be used to examine variables and find files. When the -format
option is not given, the search path used when looking for a file is inferred from the name given, by looking for a known extension. If no
known extension is found, the search path for TeX source files is used.
OPTIONS
kpsewhich accepts the following options:
-debug num
Set debugging flags.
-D num Use a base resolution of num; the default, set by the installer, is typically 600.
-dpi num
As -D.
-engine string
Set $engine in the environment, which is used in some search paths.
-expand-braces string
Print variable and brace expansion of string.
-expand-path string
Print complete path expansion of string.
-expand-var string
Print variable expansion of string.
-format name
Use file type name. See the info manual for a list of valid names, or use the -help option to print the list.
-help Print help message and exit.
-interactive
Ask for additional filenames to look up.
-mktex fmt
enable mktexfmt generation. (fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)
-mode string
Set device name for $MAKETEX_MODE to string; no default.
-must-exist
Search the disk as well as ls-R if necessary.
-no-mktex fmt
disable mktexfmt generation. (fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)
-path string
Search in the path string.
-progname string
Set program name to string.
-show-path name
Output search path for file type name. See the info manual for a list of valid names, or use the -help option to print the list.
-var-value variable
Print the expansion of variable.
-version
Print version information and exit.
SEE ALSO mktexlsr(1), mktexmf(1), mktexpk(1), mktextfm(1).
Kpathsea 6.1.0 1 March 2011 KPSEWHICH(1)