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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sort with a tab as separator
Message-ID: <3922@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 20 Aug 90 21:26:21 GMT
References: <1990Aug19.051237.27735@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>On a NeXT improved csh (and presumably on some other shells), the following
>works:

	...

>that is, the tab must be quoted twice: once with the backslash, and then with
>the ^V (control-V) to not substitute spaces.

"improved"?  Thanks, NeXT; thanks a lot.  The vanilla C shell doesn't
have this particular stupidity.  Is this a "tcsh"ism?  If so, whoever
maintains "tcsh" should seriously think about getting rid of it, 'cause
it's a crock.  "csh" is broken enough already without breaking it
further....