question about csh quoting - (nf)
jrb
jrb at wdl1.UUCP
Fri May 11 08:11:08 AEST 1984
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wdl1!jrb May 9 10:48:00 1984
The message was caused by the exclamation point in the argument to 'echo'
The 'csh' history mechanism was trying to expand it into a previous
command and failed. It should be possible to escape the exclamation point
by preceding it with a backslash ('\').
John R Blaker
Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation
Western Development Laboratories Division
3939 Fabian Way
Palo Alto, CA 94303
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blaker at FORD-WDL2
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