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kpathsea: Brace expansion

 
 5.3.4 Brace expansion
 ---------------------
 
 'x{A,B}y' expands to 'xAy:xBy'.  For example:
 
      foo/{1,2}/baz
 
 expands to 'foo/1/baz:foo/2/baz'.  ':' is the path separator on the
 current system; e.g., on a Windows system, it's ';'.
 
    Braces can be nested; for example, 'x{A,B{1,2}}y' expands to
 'xAy:xB1y:xB2y'.
 
    Multiple non-nested braces are expanded from right to left; for
 example, 'x{A,B}{1,2}y' expands to 'x{A,B}1y:x{A,B}2y', which expands to
 'xA1y:xB1y:xA2y:xB2y'.
 
    This feature can be used to implement multiple TeX hierarchies, by
 assigning a brace list to '$TEXMF', as mentioned in 'texmf.in'.
 
    You can also use the path separator instead of the comma.  The last
 example could have been written 'x{A:B}{1:2}y' (on Unix).
 
    Brace expansion is implemented in the source file
 'kpathsea/expand.c'.
 

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