From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6386 invoked from network); 15 Jan 1998 01:17:42 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Jan 1998 01:17:42 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA12432; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 20:02:10 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 20:01:36 -0500 (EST) To: Danek Duvall Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: I've forgotten again how to do this --> 0-100 References: <199801150012.TAA07173@luomat.peak.org> <19980114194653.57943@lorien.princeton.edu> X-Face: $$CzX_6%|HNr.oB"KTJp(4s)x@#{7`R#=qth)@YQVIW3G_vqiReP):T3il:o9H[)hjgs%QU z!Gx^:NL=B(KNK[Y7{`T*hok`uv`}ArWqZ\wF&KHgVYr+d\>oGI?I\60y?,j*xB@gkYk_)YU0]6"S` nEjNqCC Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 From: Mirar Date: 15 Jan 1998 02:03:50 +0100 In-Reply-To: Danek Duvall's message of "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:46:53 -0500" Message-ID: <82afcyfszt.fsf@puck.infovav.se> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.66/Emacs 19.34 Resent-Message-ID: <"GkbdR2.0.J03.l_Llq"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1229 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > > ps -- what is this actually called, so I can possibly find it in the man pages ? > > brace expansion, I believe. What it really does is expading "{0..100}" to "0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100", so for i in {0..100}; ... is the same as for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100; ... /Mirar __________________________________________________________________________ Idonex AB Telefon Telefax nalle Skolgatan 10 013-376814 013-376801 0708-376867 582 34 Linköping mirar@idonex.se http://www.idonex.se/