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From: bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yea, but can an Amiga Shell do this....
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Date: 17 Aug 88 17:42:10 GMT
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In article <3782@hcr.UUCP> edwin@hcrvax.UUCP (Edwin Hoogerbeets) writes:

=-I'm just waiting for the << operator. It is the only obstacle left
=-against unsharing real Unix shars on the Amiga. (Amiga sed is 
=-on Fish 128 and wc is on Fish 69... anything else needed?)
=-
	Yes, it would be ever so convenient if Matt's Shell used . and .. to
refer to the current and parent directories, respectively (.. currently only 
works with cd).  Then I could type 'mv ../dir1/file1 ../dir1/file2 .' instead 
of 'cd ../dir1; mv file1 file2 longpathname/dir2; cd ../dir2'.  And while we're
at it, how about history substitution anywhere, instead of just at the first
word.  Oh, and ! for history number in $_prompt.  In other words, just port
csh, minus all the process control stuff :-)  
	This is not to be taken as Matt or Steve bashing--just suggestions for
anyone feeling the need to hack.
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