Using echo is the wrong way. What you do is ‘CTRL-x \*’. That will expand any gl...

kazinator · on April 14, 2020

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.

m463 · on April 14, 2020

I didn't know about that.

I tried control-x escape, that only does variable expansion (and it appears to expand aliases too)