Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang

[Chet Ramey]

> Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 3.2
> Patch Level: 39
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       In all contexts in which a character "X" has special meaning to bash, 
> it should
>       be possible to insert that character literally by writing "\X". This 
> fails in
>       one case: where "X" is "!", and the context is inside double quotes.

Yes, this is where the semantics of history expansion clash with traditional
shell behavior.  Only single quotes inhibit history expansion.

> The following patch (adding "!" to the "slashify_in_quotes" set) seems to fix
> the problem:

Unfortunately, this violates Posix and traditional sh behavior.

If you want fully sh-compatible behavior, you have to turn off history
expansion (set +o history).

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/