From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!davy
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizar
Title: Re: ()'s in csh - (nf)
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.600
Posted: Wed Oct 20 18:34:05 1982
Received: Thu Oct 21 01:21:35 1982

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pur-ee!davy    Oct 20 08:43:00 1982



	I've received a number of responses to my query on how to get
	csh to ignore parentheses, and I've gotten two answers to my 
	question.

	The original question was:
	With the alias:
		alias calc "set noglob; echo \!:1* | bc -l; unset noglob"
	how do I get csh to send parentheses to bc, rather than generate
	an error about "badly placed ()'s".

	The answers are: (differences from original marked with ^)

		alias calc "set noglob; echo \!:1*:q | bc -l; unset noglob"
						  ^^
					add the ':q'

		alias calc 'set noglob; echo "\!*" | bc -l; unset noglob'
			   ^                 ^^^^^                      ^
			change quoting and echo arguments

	
	Thanks to all those who responded.

--Dave Curry
pur-ee!davy