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Re: Quick question: mv !(file) !$
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Quick question: mv !(file) !$ |
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Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:59:56 -0500 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) |
Yang Zhang wrote:
> Hi, why doesn't the second command work? (Trying to move all files into
> a newly created directory.)
>
> $ mkdir dhclient
> $ mv !(dhclient) !$
> bash: !: event not found
It doesn't work because enabling the `extglob' option doesn't cause bash
to tell the history library to not attempt history expansion when it sees
the history expansion character followed by a `('. This will be fixed in
bash-4.0 or soon after.
Chet
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