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

On 7/5/25 6:13 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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.
> 
Within the same expansion, no. just like you can't combine different forms
of parameter expansions without nesting. eg: ${name:=word##prefix}.