Hi, On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Jeff King wrote: > > for i in {1,2,3,4,5}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} > > do > > ... > > done > > $ dash > $ for i in {1,2,3,4,5}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}; do echo $i; done > {1,2,3,4,5}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} > $ AFAIK this is the same as bash (I thought I was the last one to make that mistake 10 years ago). As long as you do not have _files_ matching the pattern, it does not expand. And besides, this is too complicated anyway: [1-5] is much shorter than {1,2,3,4,5}. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html