Re: Double quoted history expansion character cannot be escaped

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, ksitze@gmail.com wrote:

> According to the bash man page, it appears that only backslash and single 
> quotes can escape the history expansion character ('!' by default).  However, 
> bash refuses to escape the history expansion character when placed in double 
> quotes DESPITE acting as if it had actually done so.
...
> This is simply perverse and should be fixed as there doesn't seem to be any 
> reason for this behavior.

   I find it perverse that a printing character does anything other
   than print itself on the screen.

   To fix that, I put this in ~/.bashrc:

histchars=

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   Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/>
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   Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
   Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)