weird csh thing

[Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR]

As quoted from <1991Jan10.182958.21295 at bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> by speelmo at bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Lance Speelmon -- UCS):
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| In article <BAGCHI.91Jan6000722 at snarf.eecs.umich.edu> bagchi at eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi) writes:
| >anyone care to explain??  (I`m in csh)
| Try:
| set p = `w | tail +3`
| i think that should fix it...
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Ah, no.  This will set "p" to the output of "w | tail +3"... once and only
once.  Ranjan is trying to use a variable as an alias.

++Brandon
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