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Brace expansion : run several commands instead of expanding on one line?

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Mar 15, 20264006 views
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When you use brace expansion in bash, something like becomes Is there a way to expand it to 3 separate commands, one for each expansion, instead? So that: would become

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echo {a,b,c}

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Is this just a "because I wanna know" question, or is there a real use case for it? We could go through some gymnastics to get it done: But I'd hunt down anyone that was putting in these kinds of obfuscatory commands into our system scripts. Why not…

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