Thank you, Bill Joy!

[Robert Elz]

In article <2402 at rtech.rtech.com>, daveb at llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
> [Quotes:] >% mkdir {man,cat}{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
> This is the single, lonesome, only thing that I like about csh that
> isn't done adequately or better in ksh or the BRL sh.

It is an important one, but !$ is just as important.  I have never used
a BRL sh, but ksh's $_ (while useful itself sometimes), just doesn't come
close.

What is needed is a way to do

	ls /a >/tmp/file
	ls /b | comm - !$
or
	echo old*
	rm !$

neither of which will do anything like what you want if you replace
csh with ksh and !$ with $_

kre