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Re: Bash 5.0-alpha tries to expand exclamation marks in quoted strings


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Bash 5.0-alpha tries to expand exclamation marks in quoted strings
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:11:52 -0400
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On 6/20/18 6:29 PM, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> I don't think this is intentional:
> 
> [bero@c64 ~]$ echo "test!!"
> echo "testecho "testecho "test!"""
> testecho testecho test!

It's impossible to say whether or not this is correct without knowing
what's in your history. Double quotes don't inhibit history expansion,
and never have.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/



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