Bash brace expansion with range of numbers

Syth

One can use bash's brace expansion to do less typing.
Eg:

[din][~]$ echo foo{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}
foo0 foo1 foo2 foo3 foo4 foo5 foo6

However I'm conviced I can remember doing something like this:

[din][~]$ echo foo{0..6}
foo0 foo1 foo2 foo3 foo4 foo5 foo6

And FYI:

[din][~]$ bash --version
bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

padraigmyers

Works fine for me, although i do have a much newer version of bash.

[~ 17:21:30]$ echo foo{0..6} 
foo0 foo1 foo2 foo3 foo4 foo5 foo6 

[~ 17:22:15]$ bash --version 
GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) 
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc

krinDar

Syth wrote:

However I'm conviced I can remember doing something like this:

[din][~]$ echo foo{0..6}
foo0 foo1 foo2 foo3 foo4 foo5 foo6

This feature was added in version 3.0 of bash:

http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/NEWS

Look for 'u' under new features.

Syth

I updated bash (via darwin ports). I'm using v3 now. I'm happy.

Thanks lad{,ettes}s.