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From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Thank you, Bill Joy!
Message-ID: <124@fishpond.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 88 19:50:27 GMT
References: <65@volition.dec.com> <2402@rtech.rtech.com> <2323@munnari.oz>
Reply-To: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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In article <2323@munnari.oz> kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz) writes:
>It is an important one, but !$ is just as important.  I have never used
>a BRL sh, but ksh's $_ (while useful itself sometimes), just doesn't come
>close.
>	[Examples of use of csh !$ deleted  -fnf]
>neither of which will do anything like what you want if you replace
>csh with ksh and !$ with $_

Are you confusing <ESC><_>  with <ESC><.>  ?

As far as I can tell, and I'm not a csh user, the ksh <ESC><.> sequence
does exactly what the csh !$ mechanism does, except that ksh echos the
line to be executed before you hit CR, while csh echoes it afterwards:

Script started on Sat Aug 27 12:40:06 1988
fishpond:1574> csh
% echo a b c
a b c
% echo !$
echo c 
c
% ls /x/usr/fnf/bin/*
/x/usr/fnf/bin/OLDbru
/x/usr/fnf/bin/analyze
/x/usr/fnf/bin/beep
% ls !$
ls /x/usr/fnf/bin/* 
/x/usr/fnf/bin/OLDbru
/x/usr/fnf/bin/analyze
/x/usr/fnf/bin/beep
% exit
fishpond:1575> ksh
fishpond:1576> echo a b c
a b c
fishpond:1577> echo c			(I actually typed "echo <ESC><.>")
c
fishpond:1579> ls /x/usr/fnf/bin/*
/x/usr/fnf/bin/OLDbru
/x/usr/fnf/bin/analyze
/x/usr/fnf/bin/beep
fishpond:1580> ls /x/usr/fnf/bin/*	(I actually typed "ls <ESC><.>")
/x/usr/fnf/bin/OLDbru
/x/usr/fnf/bin/analyze
/x/usr/fnf/bin/beep
fishpond:1581> exit
fishpond:1583> exit

script done on Sat Aug 27 12:42:05 1988
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