Not sure if the ! can be escaped in any way, but I saw it is possible to set 
another character in the options as the pathname substitution character. In my 
case I would definitately prefer to use an ssh session or the omvs shell, but I 
was looking if there were options for users that have less experience with unix 
to still be able to give commands this way.  

I also found out that you can use dirname and basename to get the directory 
name and filename portion of the path.
cd `dirname !`;pwd;basename !;

Kind regards,
Erik.

On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 15:33:46 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 15:19:47 -0500, Erik Janssen wrote:
>
>>Ah yes, it is actually on the panel; 'Use the pathname substitution character 
>>!' :-)
>>That what I was looking for, I already thought that there had to be some way, 
>>I just didn't notice it.
>>I was already using 3.17 basically, but since some recent z/os release you 
>>can just type in a unix directory under 3.4 and it will automatically bring 
>>you to 3.17. From the responses so far this seems like a well hidden feature 
>>:-)
>>So, what works for me is to put an X for the . (current directory) in the 
>>filelist, then use cd !;git status as a command with option 2 (login shell).
>>
>Wouldn't it be simpler to work under a z/OS UNIX shell rather than struggling 
>with
>the recondite conventions of ISPF?
>
>BTW, how can one use a literal "!", not as a pathname substitution character?
>
>-- 
>gil
>
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