Set Operations in the Unix Shell

You're viewing a comment by Patrick Farrell and its responses.

March 24, 2010, 13:55

I love it. Anyone mentioned using that set expansion for a calculator?

$ echo {1,2,3}{1,2,3,4,5} | wc -w
15

Also, you can get it to print every number from 1
to 99

echo {,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}

Reply to this comment

Reply To This Comment

(why do I need your e-mail?)

(Your twitter name, if you have one. (I'm @pkrumins, btw.))

Comment Help

Type first 3 letters of your name: (just to make sure you're a human)

Please preview the comment before submitting to make sure it's OK.