Moving / Copying with Curly Braces

This might be old news, but it's relatively new to me, so here: you can move/copy files using curly braces; the text before the comma is replaced with the text after, so instead of this:

$ mv awesome/explosion.gif rad/explosion.gif

Do this:

$ mv {awesome,rad}/explosion.gif

Works great for any subset of the argument (even partial file/folder names).

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