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| 2 | title: Mini Languages (Oils Reference)
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| 7 | ---
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| 8 |
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| 9 | <div class="doc-ref-header">
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| 10 |
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| 11 | [Oils Reference](index.html) —
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| 12 | Chapter **Mini Languages**
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| 14 | </div>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | This chapter describes "mini-languages" like glob patterns and brace expansion.
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| 18 | In contrast, the main sub languages of YSH are [command](chap-cmd-lang.html),
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| 19 | [word](chap-word-lang.html), and [expression](chap-expr-lang.html).
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <span class="in-progress">(in progress)</span>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <div id="dense-toc">
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| 24 | </div>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <h2 id="sublang">Other Shell Sublanguages</h2>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | ## Arithmetic
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| 29 |
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| 30 | ### arith-context
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| 31 |
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| 32 | ### sh-numbers
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| 33 |
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| 34 | ### sh-arith
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| 35 |
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| 36 | ### sh-logical
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| 37 |
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| 38 | ### sh-bitwise
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| 39 |
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| 40 | ## Boolean
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| 41 |
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| 42 | ### bool-expr
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| 43 |
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| 44 | ### bool-infix
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| 45 |
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| 46 | ### bool-path
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| 47 |
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| 48 | ### bool-str
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| 49 |
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| 50 | ### bool-other
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| 51 |
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| 52 | ## Patterns
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| 53 |
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| 54 | ### glob-pat
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| 55 |
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| 56 | TODO: glob syntax
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| 57 |
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| 58 | ### extglob
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| 60 | TODO: extended glob syntax
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| 61 |
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| 62 | ### regex
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| 64 | Part of [dbracket](chap-cmd-lang.html#dbracket)
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| 65 |
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| 66 | ## Other Sublang
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| 68 | ### braces
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| 69 |
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| 70 | ### histsub
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| 72 | History substitution uses `!`.
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| 73 |
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| 74 | ### char-escapes
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| 75 |
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| 76 | These backslash escape sequences are used in [echo
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| 77 | -e](chap-builtin-cmd.html#echo), [printf](chap-builtin-cmd.html#printf), and in
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| 78 | C-style strings like `$'foo\n'`:
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| 79 |
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| 80 | \\ backslash
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| 81 | \a alert (BEL)
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| 82 | \b backspace
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| 83 | \c stop processing remaining input
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| 84 | \e the escape character \x1b
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| 85 | \f form feed
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| 86 | \n newline
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| 87 | \r carriage return
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| 88 | \t tab
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| 89 | \v vertical tab
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| 90 | \xHH the byte with value HH, in hexadecimal
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| 91 | \uHHHH the unicode char with value HHHH, in hexadecimal
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| 92 | \UHHHHHHHH the unicode char with value HHHHHHHH, in hexadecimal
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| 94 | Also:
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| 95 |
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| 96 | \" Double quote.
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| 97 |
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| 98 | Inconsistent octal escapes:
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| 99 |
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| 100 | \0NNN echo -e '\0123'
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| 101 | \NNN printf '\123'
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| 102 | echo $'\123'
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| 104 | TODO: Verify other differences between `echo -e`, `printf`, and `$''`. See
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| 105 | `frontend/lexer_def.py`.
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