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kazinator on April 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Renaming files with mv without typing the name two...

Brace expansion isn't a glob, unfortunately. Did you try it?

bruce_one on April 14, 2020 [–]

I didn't know the `CTRL-x * ` expansion; it appears to work in zsh for brace expansion:

  $ touch asdf-{gh,jk}-l
  # CTRL-x *
  $ touch asdf-gh-l asdf-jk-l

tsbinz on April 14, 2020 | [–]

In zsh you can use tab to expand globs/braces/variables as well.

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