Powershell equivalent of Bash Brace Expansion for generating lists/arrays

Question

When writing a Bash script you can use brace expansion to quickly generate lists:

Answer 1

I'm hoping to be proven wrong here, but I don't believe there is a way to do it exactly like with bash, or with as few keystrokes.

You can iterate over the list by piping it through a foreach-object to achieve the same result though.

1..5 | foreach-object { "test" + $_ }

Or using the shorthand:

1..5 | %{"test$_"}

In both cases (% is an alias for foreach-object), the output is:

test1
test2
test3
test4
test5

Note: if you're building this into a script for publishing/distribution/reuse, use the more verbose foreach-object, not the shorthand % - for readability.