Hey there, I seek the wisdom of some monks!

Half a day spent trying to figure this out :-(, something i'm missing or don't understand properly for sure.

I want to use shell brace expansion in backticks to delete some files. Neater than doing rm a, rm b, rm c etc. The shell or Perl (not sure) always treats the { .. } literally. Anyone know how I can do this?

I've tried using qx'...', qx(...), `bash -c "..."`, and all sorts of escapes with backslashes, can't fathom it and unusually Google has not been my friend ;-)

$ touch perl.err
$ touch perl.tst
$ ls {perl.err,perl.tst}
perl.err  perl.tst
$ perl -e '`rm {perl.err,perl.tst}`';
rm: cannot remove `{perl.err,perl.tst}': No such file or directory
$ rm {perl.err,perl.tst}
$

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I'm developing for FreeBSD 8 Perl 5.10 using stock /bin/sh but I observe the same behaviour on Linux with bash. Cheers.

In reply to SOLVED Backticks and shell brace expansion by differenceengine

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