Re: Document that here strings don't support brace expansion.

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/11/23 3:39 AM, Alex Bochannek wrote:
> Bash Version: 5.2
> Patch Level: 15
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> The documentation for here strings says:
>
> "The WORD undergoes tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion,
> command substitution, arithmetic expansion, and quote removal.  Filename
> expansion and word splitting are not performed."
>
> It is missing brace expansion, which is not supported:

I wouldn't say it's missing, since it's not listed as one of the expansions
that here-strings undergo. The filename expansion and word splitting are
called out because people asked about them. To this point, no one has asked
about brace expansion.

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