[Lilug] alias

[Jörg Kewisch]

I am using tcsh and debugging a fortran77  program. Long story: in fortran77 all local variables were static (i.e. have a fixed memory location. If you entered a function  all variables were as you left them in the previous call)  and were initialized with zero. IN fotran90 (gfortran) all local variables are on the stack (i.e when you enter a function the values are what ever a different function left there). So I have to search all code and find all occurrences of a variable name.\, like

grep -in varnam  *.f90

so  to save typing I made an alias:

alias ff        'grep -in   \!* *.f90'

and I can now use that as
ff varnam
and get what I want. But the old fortran programmers loved to use 1 letter variable names and 

ff a

will give me thousands of lines. grep is smarter than that:

grep -in "\<a\>"  *.f90

will give me only the lines that contain the variable "a" (and not those with "read"). So I made a new alias

alias fff       'grep -in   \'\<\!*\>\' *.f90'

and get the error:

Unmatched '''.

What did I do wrong?
-- 
  Jörg Kewisch
  jorg at mellifera.buzz