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Re: Backslash quoting the history character within double-quotes
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Backslash quoting the history character within double-quotes |
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Date: |
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:00:23 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) |
Bruce LaZerte <mail@fwr.on.ca> wrote:
> HELP=Help
> echo "$HELP me rhonda\!"
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> gives me the following:
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> Help me rhonda\!
...
> Without the backslash, !" does a history expansion equivalent to
> typing !" at the command line.
I don't know if there's a bug here, but you can work around it like
this:
echo "$HELP"' me rhonda!'
paul