Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!apple!vsi1!wyse!mips!dce From: dce@mips.COM (David Elliott) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Cshell Anomaly Keywords: csh Message-ID: <9354@dunkshot.mips.COM> Date: 6 Dec 88 14:35:39 GMT References: <599@mqcomp.oz> <815@quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: dce@mips.COM (David Elliott) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 21 In article <815@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: >In article <599@mqcomp.oz> martin@mqcomp.oz (Martin Foord) writes: >>How does one get an asterisk '*' in a csh variable ? > 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. Another way to get the value out is set (no arguments). This prints the values of all shell variables without doing any kinds of substitution. -- David Elliott dce@mips.com or {ames,prls,pyramid,decwrl}!mips!dce "Did you see his eyes? Did you see his crazy eyes?" -- Iggy (who else?)