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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: WANTED FILE NAME GENERATOR
Summary: want a standalone pgm to generate filename strings.
Keywords: csh-like name abbreviations for ksh
Message-ID: <546@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 88 15:35:44 GMT
Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Ham BBS, Columbus,Oh. 614-457-4227 (300/1200,8N1)
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I am looking for a standalone pgm that would allow me to do things like:

generate 'ab{a-c}{a-j,x-z}' 
and would return to stdout 
abaa abab abac abad" and so forth down to "abcy abcz".  Note that
csh has some code in there somewhere that does part of this - I can say
'ab{a,b,c}{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,x,y,z}' and get what I want.  I am looking
for some way to specify ranges in there though.  

Note that I want to invoke this from ksh shell scripts ...

Anyone with some ideas?

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