Tricky brace expansion in shell

Question

When using a POSIX shell, the following

touch {quick,man,strong}ly

expands to

touch quickly manly strongly

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Answer 1

In bash, you can do this:

#!/bin/bash
TEST=quick,man,strong
eval echo $(echo {$TEST}ly)
#eval touch $(echo {$TEST}ly)

That last line is commented out but will touch the specified files.