Re: Issues with history substitution and its documentation

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/5/19 11:44 AM, Jim Monte wrote:
> The availability of the % string only after a command unrelated to it (not
> using !??) is executed as shown below is not documented, but it probably
> falls under the category of a bug. That is, it seems reasonable that both
> echo "!%" commands should behave as the second one does.
> [root@localhost ~]# bash
> [root@localhost ~]# echo "!%"
> bash: !: event not found

If there is no history list, and hence no history entries, there are no
events to find. Hence the error message.

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