Ethan Glasser-Camp wrote: > I think I see. So the backslash isn't counting as an escape character > here, and so passes through without being removed, but does inhibit > history expansion anyhow?
Yes. This is where the basic incompatibility of csh-derived features and Posix shows. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/