csh filename substitution

[Chris Torek]

In article <607 at SouthBank.UUCP> lawesn at SouthBank.UUCP (Nick Lawes) writes:
>I noticed that there was (according to the csh manual) an operator :s/l/r/
>... I tried (amongst other things): ... mv $i $i:s/st.//
>This replies with a message 'Variable syntax'

(... which is one of the worst messages I have ever seen.  The syntax 
is variable?)

The :s modifier is a *history* modifier.  The only variable modifiers
are h, t, r, q, x: head, tail, root, quote, and quote-except-at-spaces.
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