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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Problems with variable substitution in C-Shells
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Date: 3 Dec 90 19:33:57 GMT
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Organization: VU Dept. of Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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In article <11585.27563778@ecs.umass.edu>,
	lim@ecs.umass.edu writes:
)...
)Suppose I have:
)@ num = 5
)set str = num
)alias ech 'echo $\!*'
)
)So:
)(ech str) will output num, but (ech $str) won't output 5. The error message 
)says: variable syntax.

alias ech 'eval echo \$\!*'
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