[t]csh => Pass var containing multiline string to an alias

[Domagoj Smolčić]

On Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:29:03 +0000
Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie at catflap.org> wrote:

> Domagoj Smolčić <rank1seeker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > So far so good, now alias:
> > Double quotes are mandatory, else all ends up at 1 line
> > --
> > alias t_name    "aa $t_var bb"
> > --
> > Error:
> >     Unmatched '"'.
> >  
> 
> I'm not able to test at the moment, but I think the :q operator
> should work, to tell tcsh not to try and parse the results of the
> variablle.
> 
> I.e.
> 
> try
> 
> alias t_name    "aa $t_var:q bb"
> 
> Let me know if this works!
> 
> Cheers, Jamie


Yep Jamie,

It worked!
With & without additional \ char in t_var.
I wasn't even avare of :q operator.

Thx!
Domagoj Smolčić