Powershell equivalent of Bash Brace Expansion for generating lists/arrays

arrays, brace-expansion, powershell

Solution

PS C:\> "test","dev","prod" | % { "server-$_" }
server-test
server-dev
server-prod
PS C:\> 1..5 | % { "server{0:D2}" -f $_ }
server01
server02
server03
server04
server05
PS C:\> 1..5 | % { "192.168.0.$_" }
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.3
192.168.0.4
192.168.0.5

Note that `%` is an alias for the `ForEach-Object` cmdlet.

Problem

When writing a Bash script you can use brace expansion to quickly generate lists: What is the simplest way to generate a similar list in Powershell? I can use the .. or , operators to generate an array, but how can I prefix the items with a static string literal? ``` PS C:\Users\gb> 1..5 1 2 3 4 5 PS C:\Users\gb> "test"+1..5 test1 2 3 4 5 PS C:\Users\gb> "test","dev","prod" test dev prod PS C:\Users\gb> "asdf"+"test","dev","prod" asdftest dev prod ```

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