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Re: csh (or tcsh) help needed



paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) writes:

>any csh experts handy?  I'm trying to define an alias in my .cshrc to 
>remove dollar-signs, but I can't seemm to get the quoting right:

> 	alias Q4 'sed -e "s/\$//g"'


alias Q4 sed -e s/\\\\\\\$//g

The expression you want to pass to sed is:  s/\$//g
For the command you need to quote \ and $:  s/\\\$//g
For the alias you need to quote it again:   s/\\\\\\\$//g

Ugly but simple :)



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