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From: mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU (matthew green)
Subject: Re: Shell wars (Re: xargs and alias commands)
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 03:13:55 GMT
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brewer@hamlet.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) writes:

   >I'll have a go with bash when they add `set autocorrect correct=all',
   >"complete cd 'n/*/d/'" and decent arrays ... I'm not sure how I'd live without
   >them.
   
   alias cd 'set old=$cwd; chdir \!*; set back=$cwd:h; set prompt=$hostname\[$back:
   t/$cwd:t\].\!\ '
   set dist=5
   alias p 'clear; @ from = \!\!:1 - ${dist}; @ end = \!\!:1 + ${dist};sed -n "\!\!

i'm not at all sure you understand what those tcsh commands do.

.mrg.