Re: Double quoted history expansion character cannot be escaped

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/6/12 7:37 PM, ksitze@gmail.com wrote:

> Current behavior:
> 
> [1]$ mkdir ~/tmp
> [2]$ cd ~/tmp
> [3]$ touch hello\ world\!
> [4]$ ls
> hello world!
> [5]$ ls hello\ world\!
> hello world!
> [6]$ ls "hello world!"
> bash: !": event not found

Thanks for the report.  This has already been changed for the next version.

> [1]$ echo "hello"
> a
> [2]$ echo "!e"
> echo "echo hello"
> echo hello
> [3]$ echo " !e"
> bash: !e": event not found
> [4]$ echo "#!e"
> bash: !e": event not found
> [5]$ echo " #!e"
>  #!e

This will be fixed in the next version.

Chet

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