15.3 Adding { } Operators to Korn (and Bourne) ShellsThe bash and C shell curly brace operators ( 9.5 ) are handy for working with strings. Some versions of the Korn shell can be configured to make these work. [2] If your Korn shell can't do that, or if you use the Bourne shell, you can use the shell function ( 10.9 ) called qcsh . (You can rewrite it as a shell script ( 44.2 ) if your shell doesn't have functions.) It writes the command line you type into a temporary file, then gives the file to the C shell. [3] Type qcsh , a space, and the command line you want to run. Here are two examples from article 9.5 : to fix a typo in a filename (change fixbold61.c to fixbold6.c ):
$ To edit ten new files that don't exist yet:
$ Here's the function:
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