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From: adam@miduet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Problem with csh;request for fix (LONG)
Message-ID: <181@miduet.gec-mi-at.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 06:18:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: miduet.181
Posted: Tue Jul 15 06:18:23 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jul-86 06:56:58 EDT
References: <405@chinet.UUCP>
Reply-To: adam@miduet (Adam Quantrill)
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Keywords: csh,bug,zilog,zeus

In article <405@chinet.UUCP> megabyte@chinet.UUCP (Mark E. Sunderlin) writes:
>(Feel free to s/bug/problem/ throughout this article)
>Ok my fellow unix-wizards, I have come across a bug(?) I can't understand.  It 
>seems that csh can't deal with variable assignment when the value to assign
>to the variable has the meta characters [] or {} in it. However it seems...[]

~ set fix="string[67]"
~ echo "$fix"
string[67]
~ echo $fix
echo: No match.

I.e., just double quote it.

	Adam.