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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: C Shell history, backprimes Q's -- Noddy Level
Message-ID: <2251@solo8.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 6 Apr 89 02:46:49 GMT
References: <4930001@hpopd.HP.COM>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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ian@hpopd.HP.COM (Ian Watson) writes:
\I've just entered a command 'foo bar parm', when what I wanted was
\'foobar parm'. ...

Welcome to csh! There's no way to achieve what you want :-(

\Also, why does
\echo `man ps`
\give
\Missing ].

Compare and understand what's happening:

	echo `echo [`
	echo "`echo [`"
	echo `echo \[`
	echo "`echo \[`"

RTFM :-)
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