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Re: Broken $! behavior
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Broken $! behavior |
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Wed, 7 Oct 2020 11:41:15 -0400 |
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On 10/7/20 7:56 AM, Paul Fox wrote:
> It seems like consecutive $! are mis-processed. This has always worked -
> since csh days and bash 1.x. But sometime after 4.1 or 4.2, it got broken.
> Heres my system info and version data
Thanks for the report. The shell rejects the second history expansion
because it takes it for a `$!' word expansion. I'll look at this after
bash-5.1 is released.
Chet
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