Subj : Wildcards [] {}
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Magnus Jonneryd
Date : Sun Jul 11 2004 10:51 am

I'm wondering what's the difference between the wildcards [] and {}?
For example i was trying to create a number of files by using touch:
touch file[1,2,3], and got a file named file[1,2,3]. What i really
wanted was 3 files named: file1, file2 and file3. So I tried: touch
file{1,2,3} and it worked. The problem with this is that i don't know why.
I would really appreciate if anyone could help me.

Magnus.

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