Why csh still wins (was Re: Thank you, Bill Joy!)

Nate Hess nate at mipos2.intel.com
Fri Sep 9 05:49:17 AEST 1988


In article <3048 at dunkshot.mips.COM>, dce at mips (David Elliott) writes:
>As a challenge, please reproduce:
>
>	% ls -l /etc/pass*
>	...
>	% size !$
>	{equivalent to "size /etc/pass*"}


Or, for even more funky fun:


% ls -lsgF `whereis motd | awk '{ print $2 }'`
...
% cat !$


No, of course this doesn't have any Real(tm) use...  :-)#

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