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 Bash Brace Expansion
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Bash brace is useful in a lot of different situations. One of them is to do
surgery on text and make more shorter and elegant command lines.

Moving (renaming) files
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.. code-block::

   $ mv -v foo-{bar,tux}.txt
   renamed 'foo-bar.txt' -> 'foo-tux.txt'

   $ mv -v {foo-,}tux.txt
   renamed 'foo-tux.txt' -> 'tux.txt'

   $ mv -v {,jedi-}tux.txt
   renamed 'tux.txt' -> 'jedi-tux.txt'