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From: nate@mipos2.intel.com (Nate Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Why csh still wins (was Re: Thank you, Bill Joy!)
Message-ID: <2849@mipos3.intel.com>
Date: 8 Sep 88 19:49:17 GMT
References: <2910@dunkshot.mips.COM> <194@cvbnet2.UUCP> <3048@dunkshot.mips.COM>
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Reply-To: woodstock@sc.intel.com (Nate Hess)
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In-reply-to: dce@mips.COM (David Elliott)

In article <3048@dunkshot.mips.COM>, dce@mips (David Elliott) writes:
>As a challenge, please reproduce:
>
>	% ls -l /etc/pass*
>	...
>	% size !$
>	{equivalent to "size /etc/pass*"}


Or, for even more funky fun:


% ls -lsgF `whereis motd | awk '{ print $2 }'`
...
% cat !$


No, of course this doesn't have any Real(tm) use...  :-)#

--woodstock
-- 
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	   and thinking...and suddenly you wake up."   - Hobbes

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