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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: if-then-else in csh alias?
Message-ID: <16128@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 03:03:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: teknowle.16128
Posted: Thu Aug 27 03:03:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Aug-87 07:45:12 EDT
Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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Keywords: can it be done

I want to define an alias like:

alias show 'if ($?\!:1) then \
		if ($#\!:1) then \
			echo "\!:1 = $\!:1" \
		else \
			echo "\!:1 is set" \
		endif \
	else \
		echo "\!:1 is not set" \
	endif'

But the "\" at the end of each line doesn't embed a newline into the alias
as needed for the if-then-else to work right.

Is there any way to embed newlines into alias definitions?

Mike Khaw
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