On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Peter O'Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/11/2009 01:55 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Can someone on this list help me with the following problem with bash?
>>
>> A simple bash script of mine reads:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> echo {1..3}
>>
>> When I run it, it prints {1..3}, not 1 2 3 as I expect. My version of bash
>> is 4.0.33(1), and running "ls -l /bin/bash" gives
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 581636 Dec 13  2006 /bin/bash

/bin/bash is not 4.0.33(1), then.  4.0.33 is much more recent than
2006!  You must have be running a different bash when you check the
version - /sw/bin/bash, maybe? If you put that in your script (e.g.
#!/sw/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/bash), it should work.

Or you should update to a newer version of OS X.  Snow Leopard still
doesn't have 4.x in /bin, but it does have 3.2.48, which is new enough
for brace ranges to work.

-- 
Mark J. Reed <[email protected]>

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