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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Make:defining macros with filenames that have '$' in them
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.174537.5490@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 23 Feb 90 17:45:37 GMT
References: <27177@cup.portal.com> <12219@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
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In article <12219@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <27177@cup.portal.com> DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
>>I have to include a file with '$' in its name (i.e. abc.$cf) in
>>a macro definition in Make.
>
>Did you try $$ ?

Did you?

>Why are you guys posting this kind of question here instead of
>comp.unix.questions, which was set up expressly for them?

While I agree in principle, this isn't a simple question.  After all,
once Make tries to do anything with the filename, it uses the shell
('$' is in the list of characters that force the use of sh), which
will eat the $.

So, it may take a wizard to figure out the correct answer (assuming
there is a correct answer other than "Don't use $ in filenames").

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