At 4:25 PM -0800 3/13/02, Iago wrote: > It's the shell that's doing it -- the ! operator is telling the shell > to (in short) do stuff... when you're escaping the !, you're escaping > it for the shell, not for perl.
True, but the shell should not be expanding a '!' when it's inside of single quotes, only double quotes. Is this a tcsh feature? I don't know tcsh, the first thing I did when I got OSX was switch to zsh. -- Kee Hinckley - Somewhere.Com, LLC http://consulting.somewhere.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.