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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: Globbing in csh
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Date: 17 Feb 91 21:16:59 GMT
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  Using the "makealias" and "quote" aliases by Dan Bernstein (brnstnd@nyu.edu):

    % makealias mycat
    cat `ls | sed '1,/!*/d'` | less
    alias mycat 'cat `ls | sed '\''1,/\!*/d'\''` | less'

I typed the "makealias mycat" command and the line starting with "cat", and
got back an alias with all of the quoting correctly done.  That line is what
you would use to define the alias.

  And here are Dan's aliases, in case you want to do this again with something
else:

    alias quote     "/bin/sed 's/\\!/\\\\\!/g' | /bin/sed 's/'\\\''/'\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\''/g' | /bin/sed 's/^/'\''/' | /bin/sed 's/"\$"/'\''/'"
    alias makealias "quote | /bin/sed 's/^/alias \!:1 /' \!:2*"

Pretty gross, but they do the job....

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