Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2008-07-16, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>> 
>> Bash Version: 3.2
>> Patch Level: 39
>> Release Status: release
>> 
>> Description:
>>      In all contexts in which a character "X" has special meaning to bash, 
>> it should
>>      be possible to insert that character literally by writing "\X". This 
>> fails in
>>      one case: where "X" is "!", and the context is inside double quotes.
>
> Yes, this is where the semantics of history expansion clash with traditional
> shell behavior.  Only single quotes inhibit history expansion.
>
>> The following patch (adding "!" to the "slashify_in_quotes" set) seems to fix
>> the problem:
>
> Unfortunately, this violates Posix and traditional sh behavior.
>
> If you want fully sh-compatible behavior, you have to turn off history
> expansion (set +o history).

   I find it adequate to set histchars to an empty string.


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