Intel XENIX 286 Programmers Guide (86) - Tenox.tc

XENIX Programming csh: C Shell
Special Characters
The following list summarizes the special characters recognized by csh.
Syntactic metacharacters
( )
Separates commands to be executed sequentially
Separates commands in a pipeline
Brackets expressions and variable values
& Follows commands to be executed without waiting for completion
File name metacharacters
I Separates components of a file's path name
Separates root parts of a file name from extensions
? Expansion character matching any single character
* Expansion character matching any sequence of characters
[ ]
Expansion sequence matching any single character from a set of characters
Used at the beginning of a file name to indicate home directory
{} Used to specify groups of arguments with com mon parts
Quotation metacharacters
\ Treat following single character as literal
Treat enclosed characters as literal
Like ', but allows variable and command expansion
Input/ output metacharacters
< Indicates redirected input
> Indicates redirected output
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