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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: quoting $ in the Csh
Message-ID: <1799@solo9.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 12 Dec 88 19:04:22 GMT
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schmidt@siam.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt) writes:
\alias sqz "grep -v '^[ ^I]*$'"

\The cshell complains about ``variable syntax,'' since it appears to be
\attempting to expand $'.

Csh's syntax + parser are SICK! Csh is an example of `loving your enemy' :-)

The following trick will do it:

	alias	sqz	"grep -v '^[ ^I]*'"$

A `lonely' $ is left alone.
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