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| From: | Chet Ramey |
| Subject: | Re: inconsistent treatment of backslash-bang |
| Date: | Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:27:39 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) |
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 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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