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From: kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Thank you, Bill Joy!
Message-ID: <2323@munnari.oz>
Date: 27 Aug 88 06:14:05 GMT
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In article <2402@rtech.rtech.com>, daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
> [Quotes:] >% mkdir {man,cat}{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
> This is the single, lonesome, only thing that I like about csh that
> isn't done adequately or better in ksh or the BRL sh.

It is an important one, but !$ is just as important.  I have never used
a BRL sh, but ksh's $_ (while useful itself sometimes), just doesn't come
close.

What is needed is a way to do

	ls /a >/tmp/file
	ls /b | comm - !$
or
	echo old*
	rm !$

neither of which will do anything like what you want if you replace
csh with ksh and !$ with $_

kre