In article <599 at mqcomp.oz> martin at mqcomp.oz (Martin Foord) writes: >How does one get an asterisk '*' in a csh variable ? set x=\* set x="*" set x='*' set x=$< * All work. To verify this, try echo "$x" after each one. _Don't_ try echo $x as filename generation is done after variable substitution. (Tested in DYNIX 4.2BSD, SunOS3.2, System V.3/386.)