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Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang

Subject: Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:09:18 +0200
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> And even with the specialness of bang turned off, it still doesn't work
> right:
>
> ldo@theon:~> set +H
> ldo@theon:~> echo "hi there!"
> hi there!
> ldo@theon:~> echo "hi there\!"
> hi there\!
> ldo@theon:~> echo hi there!
> hi there!
> ldo@theon:~> echo hi there\!
> hi there!

In which way is that wrong?

Andreas.

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