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From: gorpong@encore.kent.edu (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Why does !!:gs/:/ / change only one colon?
Keywords: tcsh, csh, getting commands into the history list
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.184655.19638@math-cs.kent.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 90 18:46:55 GMT
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In article <1990Sep6.030354.27810@cs.umn.edu> rantapaa@cs.umn.edu 
(Erik E. Rantapaa) writes:
>While I've got your attention, I should also ask if anyone
>has a better way to do the following in tcsh:
>
>     echo "set today = (`date`)" > /tmp/.date
>     source -h /tmp/.date
>     !set:s/:/ /:s/:/ /

Try:  set today = (`date | tr ':' ' '`)

		-- Gordon.