Thanks for the correction on my second example. I had assumed ^ wasn't special inside double quotes since the documentation mentions only the ! character for history expansion ( https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Double-Quotes).
However, no character should be treated specially inside single quotes, right? $ echo 'fig ^mango' fig !!:s^mango On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 5:54 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 10:50:16AM +0530, Sundeep Agarwal wrote: > > $ echo "fig > > ^mango" > > bash: :s^mango": substitution failed > > I can confirm this happens in every version of bash, at least back to > bash-2.05b which is as far as I can go, but only when history expansion > is enabled (set -H or set -o histexpand). > > I think this is intended behavior, although I'm someone who routinely > disables histexpand, so I'm not as familiar with all of its features as > others might be. >
