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1. Re: Backslash quoting the history character within double-quotes (score: 770)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:52:12 -0500

csh-style history expansion is certainly weird and idiosyncratic. As documented, the `!' may be escaped only with single quotes or a backslash. Double quotes don't work because `!' is not one of the

/archive/html/bug-bash/2002-03/msg00162.html (6,008 bytes)

2. Backslash quoting the history character within double-quotes (score: 695)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:32:31 -0500

Configuration Information: Machine: i386 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linuuname output: Linux asustwo 2.4.16 #2 Thu Mar 14 16

/archive/html/bug-bash/2002-03/msg00139.html (5,171 bytes)

3. Re: Backslash quoting the history character within double-quotes (score: 655)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:00:23 -0500

... I don't know if there's a bug here, but you can work around it like this: echo "$HELP"' me rhonda!' paul

/archive/html/bug-bash/2002-03/msg00140.html (4,961 bytes)

4. Double quoted history expansion character cannot be escaped (score: 548)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:37:22 -0700 (PDT)

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 cha

/archive/html/bug-bash/2012-08/msg00006.html (7,875 bytes)

5. Re: bash: exclamation mark is not literal within double quotes (score: 493)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 04:24:34 +0000

Bash Version: 2.05b Patch Level: 0 Release Status: release When command history is being used, the double quote may not be used to quote the history expansion character. Chet Indeed it does. However,

/archive/html/bug-bash/2004-12/msg00219.html (8,215 bytes)

6. Re: Double quoted history expansion character cannot be escaped (score: 461)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 21:15:42 -0400 (EDT)

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 ch

/archive/html/bug-bash/2012-08/msg00008.html (6,137 bytes)

7. bash: exclamation mark is not literal within double quotes (score: 405)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:48:20 +0000 (GMT)

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i586 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DC

/archive/html/bug-bash/2004-12/msg00167.html (6,711 bytes)

8. Re: bash: exclamation mark is not literal within double quotes (score: 394)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:29:08 -0500

1)It is a bug that ! cannot be quoted within double quotes, not even by backslash. For example, the following ought to work: WARNING="Bad $USER\! Go $HOME\!" ; echo $WARNING Do you mean that because

/archive/html/bug-bash/2004-12/msg00280.html (6,841 bytes)

9. Re: Improper parsing of ! within double quotes (score: 383)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 10:34:09 -0400

Only single quotes and backslashes can quote the history expansion character. Since backslash is not one of the characters that is treated specially within double quotes, backslashes before the hist

/archive/html/bug-bash/2001-05/msg00062.html (6,129 bytes)

10. Re: Improper parsing of ! within double quotes (score: 378)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 04:18:23 -0700

As Paul pointed out, that's appearantly expected behavior. Maybe the man page section that relates to what gets parsed within double quotes should get updated so it lists ! as something that gets par

/archive/html/bug-bash/2001-05/msg00064.html (5,491 bytes)

11. Bash-4.4-rc2 available (score: 377)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:03:07 -0400

The second release candidate of bash-4.4 is now available with the URL ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.4-rc2.tar.gz and via git from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/?h=bash-4.4-testing T

/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-08/msg00123.html (48,472 bytes)

12. Bash FAQ (test posting) (score: 372)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:55:13 -0400

This is the Bash FAQ, version 3.36, for Bash version 3.2. This document contains a set of frequently-asked questions concerning Bash, the GNU Bourne-Again Shell. Bash is a freely-available command in

/archive/html/bug-bash/2007-05/msg00047.html (84,308 bytes)

13. Bash-4.4-beta2 available for download (score: 363)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:38:51 -0400

The second beta release of bash-4.4 is now available with the URL ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.4-beta2.tar.gz and via git from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/?h=bash-4.4-testing This

/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-07/msg00016.html (47,850 bytes)

14. Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang" (score: 352)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:02:18 -0400

Yes, this is where the semantics of history expansion clash with traditional shell behavior. Only single quotes inhibit history expansion. In that case, situation number 3 is producing the wrong res

/archive/html/bug-bash/2008-07/msg00059.html (6,526 bytes)

15. BASH Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ version 3.35) (score: 349)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:46:51 -0500

This is the Bash FAQ, version 3.35, for Bash version 3.2. This document contains a set of frequently-asked questions concerning Bash, the GNU Bourne-Again Shell. Bash is a freely-available command in

/archive/html/bug-bash/2007-01/msg00034.html (82,653 bytes)

16. BASH Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ version 3.27) (score: 347)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:00:00 -0400 (EDT)

Archive-name: unix-faq/shell/bash Posting-Frequency: monthly Submitted-By: address@hidden (Chet Ramey) Last-Modified: Tue Aug 3 09:54:24 EDT 2004 FAQ-Version: 3.27 Bash-Version: 3.0 URL: ftp://ftp.cw

/archive/html/bug-bash/2004-09/msg00060.html (79,962 bytes)

17. BASH Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ version 3.27) (score: 347)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:00:11 -0400 (EDT)

Archive-name: unix-faq/shell/bash Posting-Frequency: monthly Submitted-By: address@hidden (Chet Ramey) Last-Modified: Tue Aug 3 09:54:24 EDT 2004 FAQ-Version: 3.27 Bash-Version: 3.0 URL: ftp://ftp.cw

/archive/html/bug-bash/2004-08/msg00326.html (80,431 bytes)

18. BASH Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ version 3.27) (score: 347)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:00:00 -0400 (EDT)

Archive-name: unix-faq/shell/bash Posting-Frequency: monthly Submitted-By: address@hidden (Chet Ramey) Last-Modified: Tue Aug 3 09:54:24 EDT 2004 FAQ-Version: 3.27 Bash-Version: 3.0 URL: ftp://ftp.cw

/archive/html/bug-bash/2004-08/msg00263.html (80,496 bytes)

19. BASH Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ version 3.27) (score: 347)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:00:01 -0400 (EDT)

Archive-name: unix-faq/shell/bash Posting-Frequency: monthly Submitted-By: address@hidden (Chet Ramey) Last-Modified: Tue Aug 3 09:54:24 EDT 2004 FAQ-Version: 3.27 Bash-Version: 3.0 URL: ftp://ftp.cw

/archive/html/bug-bash/2004-08/msg00183.html (80,485 bytes)

20. BASH Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ version 3.27) (score: 347)

Author: HIDDEN

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:55:06 -0400 (EDT)

Archive-name: unix-faq/shell/bash Posting-Frequency: monthly Submitted-By: address@hidden (Chet Ramey) Last-Modified: Tue Aug 3 09:54:24 EDT 2004 FAQ-Version: 3.27 Bash-Version: 3.0 URL: ftp://ftp.cw

/archive/html/bug-bash/2004-08/msg00044.html (80,488 bytes)