question about csh quoting

Greg Woods woods at hao.UUCP
Fri May 11 11:40:34 AEST 1984


  If the character following "!" is a space character (blank, tab or newline),
then history is not invoked. I use this fact all the time in my shell
scripts.

% echo "Don't do that! "

works just fine, and is a hell of a lot easier to type (*and* read!) than
backslashes.

			   GREG
-- 
{ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!stcvax | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!stcvax}
       		        !hao!woods



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