question about csh quoting - (nf)

jrb jrb at wdl1.UUCP
Fri May 11 08:11:08 AEST 1984


#R:noscvax:-43300:wdl1:1300001:000:492
wdl1!jrb    May  9 10:48:00 1984

The message was caused by the exclamation point in the argument to 'echo'
The 'csh' history mechanism was trying to expand it into a previous
command and failed.  It should be possible to escape the exclamation point
by preceding it with a backslash ('\').

				John R Blaker
				Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation
				Western Development Laboratories Division
				3939 Fabian Way
				Palo Alto, CA  94303
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