maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (12/15/88)
mirk@warwick.UUCP (Mike Taylor) writes:
\ alias cart 'rn -c -s999 | awk \'{x+=$5}; END {print x}\''
\No deal. I can't say exactly what is going wrong here, but for some reason,
\(Any of you Toreks/Spencers out there like to explain) csh(1) decides that
\quoting the inner 's with \ isn't good enough, and spits back a "Unmatched
\single quote" error at you.
Inside single quotes a backslash isn't treated specially, EXCEPT when followed
by your first `histchar', usually an exclamation mark; so csh breaks up the
command above as follows:
alias cart 'rn -c -s999 | awk \'{x+=$5}
; # this semicolon delimits the alias command!
END {print x}\''
The next command is `END', followed by an argument with an escaped single
quote, and finally an UNMATCHED QUOTE!
And now for the joke:
% alias printf 'foreach i ( hello , world ! )\
echo $i\
end'
% printf
...
Better try it in a subshell...
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