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Re: Broken $! behavior


From: Paul Fox
Subject: Re: Broken $! behavior
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 17:08:48 +0100

Thank you Chet - much appreciated.


On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 16:41, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 10/7/20 7:56 AM, Paul Fox wrote:
> > It seems like consecutive $! are mis-processed. This has always worked -
> > since csh days and bash 1.x. But sometime after 4.1 or 4.2, it got
> broken.
> > Heres my system info and version data
>
> Thanks for the report. The shell rejects the second history expansion
> because it takes it for a `$!' word expansion. I'll look at this after
> bash-5.1 is released.
>
> Chet
> --
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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