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When do you use brace expansion?


I understood what brace expansion is.
But I don't know where I use that.

When do you use it?
Please give me some convenient examples.

Thanks.


Solution

  • The range expression form of brace expansion is used in place of seq in a for loop:

    for i in {1..100}
    do
        something    # 100 times
    done