setting an alias in .cshrc with parentheses in it ...

[Volodymyr Kostyrko]

Joe Schmoe wrote:
> I often run this command:
> 
> lynx -useragent "blah blah (compatible; MSIE blah
> blah)"
> 
> Note that the custom referrer string that I set
> includes parentheses.
> 
> So, to save time, I added this line to my .cshrc:
> 
> alias lynx lynx -useragent "blah blah (compatible;
> MSIE blah blah)"
> 
> However, when I run lynx, I get this error:
> 
> Badly placed ()'s
> 
> If I escape the parentheses with a backslash in
> ..cshrc, it also doesn't work - it splits the line up
> and lynx thinks that the next command line argument
> begins where the first backslash is inserted.
> 
> So how do I include a command alias that contains
> parentheses into .cshrc ?
> 
> thanks.

alias lynx 'lynx -useragent "blah blah (compatible; MSIE blah blah)"'

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