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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: csh filename substitution
Message-ID: <5708@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 15:59:22 EST
Article-I.D.: mimsy.5708
Posted: Sun Mar  8 15:59:22 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Mar-87 04:12:53 EST
References: <607@SouthBank.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <607@SouthBank.UUCP> lawesn@SouthBank.UUCP (Nick Lawes) writes:
>I noticed that there was (according to the csh manual) an operator :s/l/r/
>... I tried (amongst other things): ... mv $i $i:s/st.//
>This replies with a message 'Variable syntax'

(... which is one of the worst messages I have ever seen.  The syntax 
is variable?)

The :s modifier is a *history* modifier.  The only variable modifiers
are h, t, r, q, x: head, tail, root, quote, and quote-except-at-spaces.
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