vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:

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>ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (Ralf Stephan) writes:
>>> >   You have to avoid shell expantion by writing :
>>> > uucp <name>\!~/Index.Z
 
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>it's real simple...depending on which shell you're in, certain characters
>have special meanings.  The sooner you learn that, the sooner you don't have
>to cook up all kind of silliness to cover your laziness.

    I agree with Vince on this. Better to have a shell function hidden
in .bashrc for the curious to discover than to change it overall and
teach someone to rely on non-standard behaviour. It's like the argument
for using those rm replacements. If you get used to rm being safe, it's
much easier to screw up.

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