?: tcsh escape for retitling cmdtool

Brian Holtz holtz at strawdog.Eng.Sun.COM
Sat Aug 4 03:40:41 AEST 1990


In article <615 at exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> holtz at strawdog.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Holtz) writes:
>
>The following alias (for retitling a cmdtool or shelltool) works in csh
>but hangs tcsh when the alias is invoked:
>
>alias label 'echo -n "]l\!*\"'

postnews swallowed the escapes; I meant to say

alias label 'echo -n "^[]l\!*^[\"'

where ^[ means the escape character.


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Brian Holtz (holtz at netcord.Eng.Sun.COM)



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