Dxmaint

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:49:11AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Confusious (William Randall) say:
> > > > It dawned on me recently that, for my own purposes, I could create a
> > > > menu option
> > > > using
> > > >
> > > > /fp/dxmaint !! -ra -e
> > > >
> > > > A voila, all auto indexes for the selected file are rebuilt.
> > > >
> > > > Now why didn't I think of this years ago?
> > >
> > > Um, isn't the syntax:
> > >
> > > /fp/dxmaint - -ra -e
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Laura Brody
> > 
> > Either one will trigger the filename selection box because !! is invalid but
> > your syntax is more in keeping with other command syntax use.
> 
> Not to mention it won't give [t]csh fits.  If your last command had been
> "clear" and you used the !! notation in a csh-type shell, you'd effectively
> end up with:  /fp/dxmaint clear -ra -e
> 
> That's because !! means the last command in the history for csh-type
> shells.

I believe that particular interpretation of !! only happens at the
interactive commandline for those shells, when reading from a terminal.

No?

Cheers,
-- jra
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