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qu4z-2 on Sept 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Unix Commands I Wish I’d Discovered Years Earlier

Brace expansion is great! My understanding, though, is that you'd need to write:

  cp file{,.bak}

Was it a typo, or is there some feature/special-case I don't know about?

ngcazz on Sept 12, 2013 [–]

Oh, you're right. Thanks. (Can't edit the original comment anymore)

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