quoting $ in the Csh
Maarten Litmaath
maart at cs.vu.nl
Tue Dec 13 05:04:22 AEST 1988
schmidt at siam.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt) writes:
\alias sqz "grep -v '^[ ^I]*$'"
\The cshell complains about ``variable syntax,'' since it appears to be
\attempting to expand $'.
Csh's syntax + parser are SICK! Csh is an example of `loving your enemy' :-)
The following trick will do it:
alias sqz "grep -v '^[ ^I]*'"$
A `lonely' $ is left alone.
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