Here's the deal. Only single quotes and backslashes quote the historyexpansion character. Doublequotes don't matter ... Then why do they cause a difference in behaviour? Are you being deliberately
The first release candidate of bash-4.4 is now available with the URL ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.4-rc1.tar.gz and via git from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/?h=bash-4.4-testing Th
It's documented to behave as it behaves. "Enclosing characters in doublequotes preserves the literal value of all characters within the quotes, with the exception of $, ‘, \, and, when history exp