Problems with variable substitution in C-Shells

Maarten Litmaath maart at cs.vu.nl
Tue Dec 4 06:33:57 AEST 1990


In article <11585.27563778 at ecs.umass.edu>,
	lim at ecs.umass.edu writes:
)...
)Suppose I have:
)@ num = 5
)set str = num
)alias ech 'echo $\!*'
)
)So:
)(ech str) will output num, but (ech $str) won't output 5. The error message 
)says: variable syntax.

alias ech 'eval echo \$\!*'
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