[OT] xkcd

[John Abreau]

On Thu, October 11, 2007 11:37 pm, Ben Scott said:

> Of course, if you're using bash, then
>
> 	http://xkcd.com/{1..327}
>
> will do the job without all the messy syntax or the external program.
>

Depends on what version of bash. The first time I tried that, it failed:

    $ echo http://xkcd.com{1..10}
    http://xkcd.com{1..10}
    $ bash --version
    GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
    Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

However, on another system:

    $ echo http://xkcd.com{1..10}
    http://xkcd.com1 http://xkcd.com2 http://xkcd.com3 http://xkcd.com4
    http://xkcd.com5 http://xkcd.com6 http://xkcd.com7 http://xkcd.com8
    http://xkcd.com9 http://xkcd.com10
    $ bash --version
    GNU bash, version 3.2.9(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux-gnu)
    Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.



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