Re: Double quoted history expansion character cannot be escaped

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/7/12 8:14 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 09:14:11PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>>> [6]$ ls "hello world!"
>>> bash: !": event not found
>>
>> Thanks for the report.  This has already been changed for the next version.
> 
> Ah, so you've changed your stance a decade after
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=135402

Not completely.  The change is that a double quote following the history
expansion character inhibits history expansion in a double-quoted string.
Nonsense like !"" will still attempt history expansion.

The treatment of "\!" has not changed.

Chet
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