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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!blaze.cs.jhu.edu!whatever.cs.jhu.edu!hymowitz
  2. From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
  4. Subject: Re: an ugly shell script that i'd like to fix
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug20.201125.27287@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
  6. Date: 20 Aug 92 20:11:25 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug19.011502.8295@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
  8. Sender: news@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Usenet news system)
  9. Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear
  10. Lines: 12
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  12. thanx for all the help.  the solution was to learn to write shells
  13. in csh, and to use an alias:
  14. alias prog "source prog \!*"
  15. to pass an argv into the script.
  16.  
  17. --hymie
  18. hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu                                         hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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  20. I'm just a soul whose intentions are good.
  21. Oh, Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood.
  22. --Nina Simone
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