[NTLUG:Discuss] What scripting change do I need to make?

[Leroy Tennison]

I thought about eval but couldn't get it to work, I noticed though that 
you made another change: $(seq -s, 1 3) rather than `seq -s, 1 3`.  
Tested and that works too, thanks.

On 10/06/2015 12:38 AM, Christopher Cox wrote:
> On 10/05/2015 11:07 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 09:46:08PM -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
>>> If only there was a way to tell mkdir "this isn't a string!".
>>
>> It's important to note that mkdir(1) itself never sees quotes, braces,
>> or anything like that -- all of these expansions and substitutions
>> are handled by the shell *before* the mkdir command is ever called.
>>
>> So, according to the bash(1) man page ("EXPANSIONS"):
>>
>>     The order of expansions is: brace expansion; tilde expansion, 
>> parameter
>>     and  variable expansion, arithmetic expansion, and command 
>> substitution
>>     (done in a left-to-right fashion); word splitting; and pathname
>>     expansion.
>>
>> Thus, in the case of
>>
>>       mkdir -p test/{`seq -s, 1 3`}
>
> eval is your friend
>
> eval mkdir -p test/{$(seq -s, 1 3)}
>
>
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