Re: Multi-line, double quoted string triggers history expansion on subsequent single-quoted commands it gets piped to

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/14/16 8:52 AM, Néstor Tejero wrote:

> When printing a multi-line string and piping to another command that uses
> single-quotes, Bash tries to perform history expansion:
> 
> echo "9
>> 10
>> 9
>> 11" | awk '!seen[$0]++'
> bash: !seen[$0]++': event not found

History expansion is explicitly line-oriented.  It doesn't know about shell
state, especially shell quoting state, that spans lines. It does know about
vaguely shell-like quoting that's common across a large set of Unix
utilities -- since the history and readline libraries are used outside the
shell --  and that a double quote introduces a quoted string in which
single quotes are not significant and don't inhibit history expansion.

Chet
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