Re: strange expansion of <(cat p.main.{optional,extra})

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 18/04/07 at 14:37 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> writes:
> 
> > According to Andreas Schwab on 4/18/2007 4:01 AM:
> >> Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> 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.
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