Came across a great new shell tip. Brace expansion.
Some examples:
$echo {one,two,three,four}” fish”
one fish two fish three fish four fish
$ echo {{1,2,3}1,2,3}
11 21 31 2 3
Ok, that’s great. What’s it good for:
$ cp /tmp/test.html /tmp/test.html_bak
Can be rewritten as:
cp /tmp/test.html{,_bak}
Then after you makes some changes to /tmp/test.html:
$ diff /tmp/test.html{_bak,}
Works in bash, zsh and possibly others.
By Matthew
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