Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang

[Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@xxxxxxxx>]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.

OK, you got me.  Unquoted backslashes inhibit history expansion also.

Chet

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