bash expansion help

[William Park]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 01:16:54PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Can you find a way do do this with less overhead?  I count two
> > invocations of the shell, one implicit by using `` and one explicit.
> 
> Hmm, I missed that if was expanding $arm_opts.  I had been playing with
> it as just foo=`echo ARM{610,710,_{SA110,SA1100,XSCALE}}` which didn't
> need another shell.  Given the extra variable, no I don't think I can
> find a shorter method.  Not sure eval or anything else would do it, but
> it would take more characters to do it for sure.

I'm sure of it. :-)  Try
    eval echo ...

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