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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Strangeness in shell
Message-ID: <5275@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 26 Jul 89 19:24:59 GMT
References: <432@mccc.UUCP> <9700009@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu> <2277@auspex.auspex.com> <470@glyph.UUCP>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <470@glyph.UUCP>, nichiren@glyph.UUCP (Andy Heffernan) writes:
> For C-shell users, at least the * in the above command needs quoting
> against interpretation, and I guess the ! as well.  (Beats me, I just ^P.)

	% set nonomatch		# Don't complain about unmatched stuff
	% set histchars='%^'	# And forget about ! in paths.
	% uucp somewhere!~/get/* ~/get
	% %%:s/get/put/g
	uucp somewhere!~/put/* ~/put
	% []

I've used ksh history at 300 baud. I'll stick with csh.

The right place for ksh -type command line editing is in the terminal
driver or xterm!
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