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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Cshell Anomaly
Keywords: csh
Message-ID: <815@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 88 02:21:35 GMT
References: <599@mqcomp.oz>
Sender: news@quintus.UUCP
Reply-To: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <599@mqcomp.oz> martin@mqcomp.oz (Martin Foord) writes:
>How does one get an asterisk '*' in a csh variable ?
	set x=\*
	set x="*"
	set x='*'
	set x=$<
	*
All work.  To verify this, try
	echo "$x"
after each one.  _Don't_ try
	echo $x
as filename generation is done after variable substitution.
(Tested in DYNIX 4.2BSD, SunOS3.2, System V.3/386.)