question about csh quoting

[merlyn at sequent.UUCP]

> From: sloane at noscvax.UUCP
> Message-ID: <433 at noscvax.UUCP>
> Date: Mon, 7-May-84 07:52:51 PDT
> 
> "The UNIX Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike (copyright 1984
> by Bell Labs) states the following:
> 	"...Quotes of one kind protect quotes of the other kind:
> 		$ echo "Don't do that!"
> 		Don't do that!
> 		$
> 	..."
> When I tried that (4.2bsd with csh) it did the following:
> 		%echo "Don't do that!"
> 		": Event not found.
> 		%
> Is this something different in the c-shell, or is this an error in
> the c-shell?

Different in the C-shell.  You have an exclamation mark in your command line,
and that takes higher precedence than even single quotes (sometimes icky!).

To get C-shell to echo "Don't do that!", you need to say:
		% echo "Don't do that\!"
and all will be fine.

-- A particularly personal and original observation from the thought-stream of
Randal L. ("C shell seller by C shore") Schwartz, esq. (merlyn at sequent.UUCP)
	(Official Legendary Sorcerer of the 1984 Summer Olympics)
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