No brace expansion for ash?

Eric Martin eric.martin at gmx.net
Sat Jul 9 10:08:39 UTC 2011


>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently installed busybox's ash to test it as a viable alternative to
>> bash and i discovered that it doesn't interpret brace expansion as the
>> tiny hush does...
>>
>
> could you provide an example ?
>
> re,
>   wh
>
>

With ash :

# mkdir /tmp/{a,b,c}
# ls /tmp
{a,b,c}


With hush :

# mkdir /tmp/{a,b,c}
# ls /tmp
a  b  c


Brace expansion works in hush but not in ash.



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