Cshell Anomaly

[Maarten Litmaath]

martin at mqcomp.oz (Martin Foord) writes:

\How does one get an asterisk '*' in a csh variable ?   I've been trying for
\a long time to figure this one out but can't achieve it ?  What about if
\you're reading chars in from a file into csh variables and one of them is a
\'*' it doesn't appear into the csh variable at all !

Because it has to be escaped.

	% set x=\*
	% echo "$x"
	*
	%
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