Re: rapidsvn feedback

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:09:08PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> > Not true. csh history expansion (picked up by bash and probably zsh
> > also) uses ^ to delimit a 'quick substitution'.
>
> Actually, that requires two ^'s, one at the beginning of the line.

To do anything useful, yes.

> > This means some versions of csh will silently make ^path vanish,
> > since it doesn't fit their grammar.
>
> Testing bash, tcsh, csh on HP-UX 11 and SCO Openserver 5 does not
> show this problem. Can you point to one that does?

Only my dim memories of the nightmare that was SunOS 4 /bin/csh,
which, even if accurate, I am willing to stipulate that we don't care.

zw

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Received on Thu Aug 1 20:33:51 2002