Re: brace expansion: combining the comma and .. forms

Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel,gmane.comp.shells.zsh.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-07-06 00:10:57 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> With brace expansion, is there a way to combine the comma and .. forms?
> 
> For instance, I get
> 
> qaa% echo foo{1..3,5..7}
> foo1..3 foo5..7
> 
> while I would want
> 
> foo1 foo2 foo3 foo5 foo6 foo7

... like what the following does:

qaa% echo foo{{1..3},{5..7}}
foo1 foo2 foo3 foo5 foo6 foo7

But I would like to avoid the extra braces.

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