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Re: Exclamation points in quoted strings
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Exclamation points in quoted strings |
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Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:59:52 -0400 |
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Ethan Glasser-Camp wrote:
> I think I see. So the backslash isn't counting as an escape character
> here, and so passes through without being removed, but does inhibit
> history expansion anyhow?
Yes. This is where the basic incompatibility of csh-derived features
and Posix shows.
Chet
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