Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ll-xn!cullvax!drw From: drw@cullvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Newlines inside command substitutions in csh Message-ID: <640@cullvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Dec-86 15:15:05 EST Article-I.D.: cullvax.640 Posted: Wed Dec 10 15:15:05 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 07:45:46 EST Organization: Cullinet Software, Inc., Westwood, MA Lines: 20 It seems that in Dec Ultrix 1.2 (a bsd 4.2), csh won't allow newlines in commands that are part of a command substitution. For example, the command fgrep -l 'foo\ bar' file works fine, but echo `fgrep -l 'foo\ bar' file` doesn't. As far as I can tell from the manual pages, ending a line with \ should quote the newline in all circumstances, but csh replies "Unmatchd `". Also, using more than one \ doesn't seem to help, so it probably isn't that I'm not quoting the newline correctly. -- Dale Worley Cullinet Software UUCP: ...!seismo!harvard!mit-eddie!cullvax!drw ARPA: cullvax!drw@eddie.mit.edu