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From: schmidt@siam.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: quoting $ in the Csh
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Date: 13 Dec 88 22:30:07 GMT
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I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my question about quoting
'$' in the csh.  The following is a brief summary of all the
different, valid responses from various folks ( the original problem
was to create an alias that would replace all blank lines from a file
with *no* blank lines ).

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alias sqz "grep -v '^[ ^I]*"\$\'
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alias sqz grep -v \'^\[\ \^I\]\*\$\'
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alias sqz "grep -v '^[ ^I]*"\$"'"
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alias sqz "grep -v '"'^[ ^I]*$'"'"
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alias sqz 'grep -v \'^[ ^I]*$\''
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alias sqz "grep -v '^[ ^I]*"'$'"'"
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alias sqz 'grep -v '\''^[ ^I]*$'\'
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set d='$'
alias sqz "grep -v '^[ ^I]*$d' \!*"
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Rather diverse approaches, eh? ;-)

thanks again.

Doug Schmidt
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