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From: brewer@hamlet.umd.edu (Peter Brewer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Shell wars (Re: xargs and alias commands)
Date: 31 Aug 1994 11:22:20 -0400
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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References: <33af70$8rd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <33iajo$ibg@sprocket.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <33jkb2$6ev@hamlet.umd.edu> <mrg.778302835@dynamo>
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In article <mrg.778302835@dynamo>, matthew green <mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> I did not write this part here. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>brewer@hamlet.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) writes:
>
> >I'll have a go with bash when they add `set autocorrect correct=all',
> >"complete cd 'n/*/d/'" and decent arrays ... I'm not sure how I'd live without
> >them.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I published these here. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> alias cd 'set old=$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.
I agree with you but I am not that individual.
-- Peter
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