Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bigsur!bnr-rsc!simonl@bnr.ca From: simonl@bnr.ca (Simon-Cheuk Leung) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: echo question Message-ID: <4101@bnr-rsc.UUCP> Date: 7 Mar 91 18:33:12 GMT Sender: news@bnr-rsc.UUCP Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 22 I have a question on C-shell, if I do the following, set item = ( search 'find / -name "\!*" -print' ) I can set this item without getting any complain, but it doesn't allow me echoing $item[2]. How can I echo the original $item[2] in this case? (include \!*) Any comments? Thanks in advance .... -- +-------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+ | Simon C. F. Leung | Bitnet: simonl@bnr.ca | Phone: (613) 763-9077 | | Bell-Northern Research.| UUCP : ..uunet!bnrgate!bcara222!simonl | |__Ottawa, Canada________|________________________________________________| -- +-------------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+ | Simon C. F. Leung | Bitnet: simonl@bnr.ca | Phone: (613) 763-9077 | | Bell-Northern Research.| UUCP : ..uunet!bnrgate!bcara222!simonl | |__Ottawa, Canada________|________________________________________________|