Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!hplabs!sri-unix!quintus!ok 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. Lines: 13 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.)