On 18/04/07 at 14:37 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > According to Andreas Schwab on 4/18/2007 4:01 AM: > >> Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>> Well, no, because bash expands *parameters*, not words. So the prefix is > >>> "<(cat /etc/", and the suffix is ")". > >> > >> But that would not be a *strict textual* expansion. > > > > According to 'man bash', brace expansion is documented as being able to > > expand one word into many. > > The documentation talks about strings, not words.
Based on the behaviour, I think that bash first splits the command line into a list of parameters, then expands each parameter. <(...) is a single parameter. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
