I was happy with my shell script that needed to generate alphanumeric combinations of length N (in this case, 3) ```for i in {a..z}{a..z}{a..z}; do ... ``` Now I became less happy when I needed alphanumeric combinations (specially if I choose a larger value for N) for i in {0..9}{a..z}{a..z} \ {a..z}{0..9}{a..z} \ {a..z}{a..z}{0..9} \ {a..z}{a..z}{a..z} \ {0..9}{0..9}{a..z} \ {0..9}{a..z}{0..9} \ {a..z}{0..9}{0..9} \ {0..9}{0..9}{0..9}; do ... ``` So I decided to write it in Haskell, import Data.List c 0 _ = [[]] c n xs = [ y:ys | y:xs' <- Data.List.tails xs, ys <- c (n-1) xs'] main = sequence_ . map putStrLn . c 3 $ ['a' .. 'z'] ++ ['0' .. '9'] Now, I couldn't find a way to incorporate the above code in my shell script, so I had to reduce it to an one-liner to run with `ghc -e`, finally giving me with the code I have right now for i in $(ghc -e " let c n l = if n == 0 then [[]] else \ [y:s | y:q <- Data.List.tails l, s <- c (n-1) q] in sequence_. map putStrLn . c 3 $ ['a'..'z'] ++ ['0'..'9']"); do ... Now, I actually like this style (elsewhere I have inline calls to awk too, etc). But I think this code is too big and too ugly; for example, I'm using `if n == 0` instead of guards, etc. Haskell is supposed to be a lot more concise than that. Now, I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask this question (but I'm not sure if there's a forum that is a *better* fit), but how can I make it more concise? My only requirement is that I may want to change the length to be larger than 3, but also `['a'..'z'] ++ ['0'..'9']` to another set (perhaps to include - or _).