Re: bash: History substitution doesn't happen after ^V^J.

[Chet Ramey]

> One thing I didn't realise from Chet's explanation was that this
> simpler, single-line, case also fails.
> 
>     $ echo foo
>     foo
>     $ echo "abc'def" !$ xyz
>     abc'def !$ xyz

I can't reproduce this using bash-3.0:

$ echo $BASH_VERSION 
3.00.15(3)-release
$ echo foo
foo
$ echo "abc'def" !$ xyz
echo "abc'def" foo xyz
abc'def foo xyz

Chet
> 
> This bites when I
> 
>     $ vi foo.c
>     $ ci -u -m"Somebody's patch." !$
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Ralph.
> 
> 
> 

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