Re: History event execution in command substition

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/9/15 5:58 PM, Zigmund.Ozean@zig-home.localdomain wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 30
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       Inside command substition, an exclamation character will always try 
> execute a command from history.  Quoting has an unexpected result.

History expansion is part of readline, and knows next to nothing about
shell syntax.  It knows a little bit about the shell-like quoting that is
common to many Unix applications, but not much else.  There is a minimal
hook function that allows applications to suppress expansions the history
library would ordinarily perform, so maybe it can be extended to understand
these constructs.

Chet
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