barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) (01/18/91)
In article <122@pikes.Colorado.EDU> ndimas@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Nicholas Dimas) writes: >I put the following line in my .cshrc file and the system kept hanging >up. Can someone shed some light. > >alias tt ( date > $argv[1]; a.out >> $argv[1]; date >> $argv[1] ) & > >I then did a "source .cshrc" command,it told me "Badly placed ()'s". You have to quote the alias expansion if it contains shell metacharacters, e.g. alias tt "( date > $argv[1]; a.out >> $argv[1]; date >> $argv[1] ) &" >The machine is a Sun. So why are you posting to a newsgroup that is specifically for DEC machines (Ultrix is DEC's Unix port)? Try comp.unix.questions in the future. -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar