Need csh alias to match patterns in history

[Marco Zagha]

In article <3680046 at eecs.nwu.edu>, naim at eecs.nwu.edu (Naim Abdullah) writes:
> 
> alias h ' \
> if ( "X\!*" == "X" ) then \
> history \
> else \
> history | grep \!* \
> endif'
> 
> For some reason, this does not work. Can some kind soul explain why
> and supply a working answer to this problem ?

I think this will do the trick:

 alias hh 'history | grep "\!*"'

This works because 'grep ""' is not the same as 'grep'.

Your alias produces strange behavior.  Neither the "if" or the "else"
condition is ever executed.  I don't know why.

== Marco (marcoz at cs.cmu.edu)


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