[vox] Stupid User Tricks

[Peter Jay Salzman]

jay, surely you don't use csh?!?   ;)

just kidding, of course.

pete



On Tue 13 May 03, 10:09 PM, Jay Strauss <me@heyjay.com> opined:
> That's what I figured, but didn't know what language it was in.  Thanks (and
> adding it to my machine now)
> 
> Jay
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <p@dirac.org>
> To: <vox@lists.lugod.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [vox] Stupid User Tricks
> 
> 
> > hi jay,
> >
> > has nothing to do with a regex, although it certainly looks like one.
> >
> > i had to look twice before i realized that it's a csh style glob.
> > basically \!* means "all arguments" in csh/tcsh.
> >
> > pete
> >
> >
> > On Tue 13 May 03,  9:01 PM, Jay Strauss <me@heyjay.com> opined:
> > > I get what it does, but not how it does it.
> > >
> > > what is \!*, is this a regex?  If so it looks like "not anything", which
> > > obviously it can't be.
> > >
> > > Jay
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Norm Matloff" <matloff@laura.cs.ucdavis.edu>
> > > To: <vox@lists.lugod.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:52 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [vox] Stupid User Tricks
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I had thought that everyone had rm aliased, e.g.
> > > >
> > > > alias rm 'mv \!* ~/Trash'
> > > >
> > > > Norm

-- 
GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg
GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D