Re: Expansion of exclamation mark in single quotes in subcommand

[Chris Down]

Chris Down writes:
> !! is not single-quoted in the ultimate expansion (bash knows nothing
> about what happens inside the subshell), which is all that matters. It's
> not too late to perform history expansion (which is different than
> parameter expansion).

To be more clear, the history expansion is performed immediately after
the line is read, before word splitting takes place.

Perhaps this may be undesirable(?), but I don't think it's unexpected
behaviour.

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