Harri Salokorpi <hsalokor at ee.oulu.fi> writes:
> and : causes namespace problems.
: is also a shell meta-character is some situation. In tcsh, I get
$ setenv a xxx
$ setenv b yyy
$ echo $a:$b
Bad : modifier in $ ($).
$ echo ${a}:${b}
xxx:yyy
$ echo {xxx}
xxx
$ echo $a..$b
xxx..yyy
> I think ellipsis is the safest choice.
Metoo.
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Matthieu