Newlines inside command substitutions in csh

drw at cullvax.UUCP drw at cullvax.UUCP
Thu Dec 11 06:15:05 AEST 1986


It seems that in Dec Ultrix 1.2 (a bsd 4.2), csh won't allow newlines
in commands that are part of a command substitution.  For example, the
command

	fgrep -l 'foo\
	bar' file

works fine, but

	echo `fgrep -l 'foo\
	bar' file`

doesn't.  As far as I can tell from the manual pages, ending a line
with \ should quote the newline in all circumstances, but csh replies
"Unmatchd `".  Also, using more than one \ doesn't seem to help, so it
probably isn't that I'm not quoting the newline correctly.
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