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TIL: Curly Bracket Substitution

#bash #shell
scottw profile image Scott Watermasysk Originally published at scottw.com on ・1 min read

You can use curly brackets for quick substitution in a shell command.

Curly Backet Example

Instead of manually typing the path out twice (or even tab completing it), you can list the parts to be swapped within curly brackets ({}).

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