Re: csh (or tcsh) help needed

[Martin Neitzel <neitzel%hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de@localhost>]

kre>
kre> which when written as the alias command
kre>
kre> 	alias Q4 "sed -e 's/"'\$'"//g'"
kre>
kre> where the \$ always appears inside single quotes so you don't need to
kre> deal with csh's weird "" rules ($ inside "" is always a variable reference,
kre> that can't be prevented by a \, so a literal $ needs to be unquoted \$ or
kre> single quoted).

True.  Csh's insistance on ALWAYS tackling $s within "..." can be
counter-acted by using a nifty aux definion:

	set dollar=$

The entire thing then becomes, without flipping between quoting styles:

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

I'd consider this "pretty agreeable".  The entire(?) aux list

	set dollar=$ sq=\' dq=\"  bs=\\

can drag you through a other problematic contexts.  Because,
csh won't let you put a ' within '...'  or a " within "...",
either  :-(

Note that any $ followed by white space or nothing at all is not
subject to variable expansion.   IMHO, the easiest solution for
the task is

	alias Q5    tr -d $

Look Ma, neither freaking quotes nor backslashes at all!

							Martin