Re: '$' in csh

From: Tom Gur <gur.tom@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:51:26 -0000

On Jun 7, 3:30 pm, "Joachim Schmitz" <nospam.j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"Tom Gur" <gur....@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitragnews:1181218415.186096.245610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi,

I'm writing a program in C that runs a Java utility with several
command-line arguments.
one of the parameters that I'm passing is a home directory of a tandem
computer - which means that it contains the special character: '$'.
i.e: myprogram -path "\BLA.$DATA01.BLU"

A NonStop system? (\node.$volume.subvol)

If I'll run it literally, I'll get a: "DATA01: Undefined variable"
message.
what I usually do, with tcsh/bash is adding a '\' before every '$'.
i.e: myprogram -path "\BLA.\$DATA01.BLU"
but when I try to do it with csh, I still get an error message (the
same ol' "DATA01: Undefined variable")

A NonStop system with a C-Shell??
Don't use C-Shell for scripting...

how can I get pass that ?

How about single quotes instead of double quotes, e.g.
myprogram -path '\BLA.$DATA01.BLU'

In C you might still need to escape the \
system("myprogram -path '\\BLA.$DATA01.BLU'")
or
system("myprogram -path \"\\BLA.\\$DATA01.BLU\")

Bye, Jojo

Thanks ! single quotes works.

.

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- '$' in csh
  - From: Tom Gur
- Re: '$' in csh
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