Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!prandt!tweten@AMES-NAS.ARPA From: tweten@AMES-NAS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Help! Csh is eating my brain.... Message-ID: <2409@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 16:59:43 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2409 Posted: Thu Oct 24 16:59:43 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:11:56 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 13 From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie) > alias readandset 'echo -n \!:1 ; set \!:2 = $< ' Why doesn't ksh have something like this? I hate having to use fc and mess around with its output - and that's soooo inefficient! I'm not a ksher, so I can't answer directly, but System V.2 sh has just the thing, shell functions: readandset () { echo "$1\c"; read $2; } To my eye, at least, it even looks better!