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Article #273Re: ** Question about complex csh alias **
From: Noah Friedman
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 23:41
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 23:41
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In article <1992Aug3.165658.7658@novell.com> dwong@ka.novell.com (T.David Wong) writes:
>alias rcsinfo 'grep "lock.*strict;" RCS/*,v | \\
> awk \'$2 != ";" { print $0 }\' | \\
> sed -e "s_RCS/_ _" -e "s_,v:_: _" -e "s_strict;__"'
God it pains me to see people struggling with egregious examples like
these when there are so many shells that could make this much simpler to
implement. Why oh why do people still beat their heads against the wall
with broken kludges like csh?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!friedman From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: ** Question about complex csh alias ** Message-ID: <FRIEDMAN.92Aug3194104@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: 3 Aug 92 23:41:04 GMT Article-I.D.: nutrimat.FRIEDMAN.92Aug3194104 References: <1992Aug3.165658.7658@novell.com> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Organization: Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 Lines: 9 In-reply-to: dwong@ka.novell.com's message of 3 Aug 92 16:56:58 GMT