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Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang

Subject: Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang
From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:39:18 +1200
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug

Chet Ramey wrote:

> 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 result, since there
are no single quotes there, only a backslash.

Whichever way you look at it, there's still a bug.

Lawrence




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