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From: devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: quotation of metacharacters in csh
Message-ID: <185@vianet.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 20:19:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: vianet.185
Posted: Thu May 14 20:19:24 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 13:34:34 EDT
References: <326@voodoo.UUCP>
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Summary: an ugly wany to do it

In article <326@voodoo.UUCP>, tomm@voodoo.UUCP (Tom Mackey) writes:
> When the cshell is used to "list all files starting with file1;", like so:
> 
> ls file1\;*
> it returns "No Match".
> 
> Yet the same command under the Bourne shell works as expected.  What am I
> missing?  How do you do the task using the cshell?

Hi Tom,

  Here is a way to get around the interpretation of ';' by Csh:

	% ls file1`echo ';'`*	# not as elegant as Bourne/Korn shell

Bob