Novice games (was "Prompt Games")

[Doug Landauer]

>   % alias "unalias" \\unalias
>   % alias "alias" \\alias
> 
> Now, when someone types 'alias', the shell turns that into '\alias',
> and then, the backslash suppresses alias expansion, and the shell
> tries to execute the program 'alias'.  It ends up printing "alias:
> command not found.".  Of course, the same thing happens for unalias.
> There is no way out short of starting a new csh.

I suppose this depends on what version of "csh" you're using on what
operating system, but SunOS lets you escape this trap pretty easily.
The first thing I tried was to type

	% ''unalias unalias
	% unalias alais

This is one easy way out; I'm sure there are others.