@MichaelRoss curly brackets can be useful when you create files or paths in a script
mkdir -p /mnt/{hdd,ssd,floppy}
and suddenly you have
/mnt/hdd
/mnt/ssd
/mnt/floppy
say you need to create file in each of the directories
touch /mnt/{hdd,ssd,floppy}/if_you_see_this_its_unmounted