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From: armstron@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Globbing in csh
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Date: 16 Feb 91 08:36:19 GMT
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In article <1991Feb15.135812.5010@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
 
>ls | sed '1,/george/d'
>So your example would be:
>cat `ls | sed '1,/george/d'` > out_file

Thanks a lot.  Now I would like to generalize it using an alias.

I tried  alias mycat "cat `ls | sed '1,/\!*/d'` | less"
but it didn't work.

Could you help me again?



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