Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bpa!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Huh?  What's going on here?
Message-ID: <7410@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 89 14:42:46 GMT
References: <2917@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <2917@blake.acs.washington.edu> mtsu@blake.UUCP (Montana State) writes:
> Huh?  What's going on here?  I'm trying to set the shell variable x to
> the contents of the file /tmp/x, here's a script.

> Somehow a directory listing is getting in there...

set noglob
set x=`cat /tmp/x`
unset noglob

one of those little csh rituals  8-)

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