Re: for loop with variable

On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 8:11 PM Stephane Chazelas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 2026-05-11 19:11:55 +0200, Roman Perepelitsa:
> [...]
> > {a..c} expands to a b c. You can iterate over that.
> [...]
>
> See also {a-c} with the braceccl option enabled (predates the
> {a..c} variant). Makes for shorter code in more complicated
> cases such as:
>
> $ echo foo{{a..c},{x..z}}bar
> fooabar foobbar foocbar fooxbar fooybar foozbar
> $ echo foo{a-cx-z}bar
> fooabar foobbar foocbar fooxbar fooybar foozbar

Braceccl syntax will a) sort the results for you which you may not
want, eg {x-za-c} will give the exact same results as the above, b) it
does not support multibyte at all, c) requires you to setopt braceccl.
It is a lot of drawbacks to save typing five characters.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson