On 12/14/23 2:59 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> writes:While declaring a string literal across multiple lines, a line starting with the ^ character is resulting in some sort of quick substitution processing.This is a standard form of history expansion, described in the man page.I just checked. Certainly, the use of ^ is mentioned in the man page, but it isn't very clearly described, unfortunately. In particular, ^ is only active at the beginning of a line, which doesn't seem to be described at all.
Good catch, that needs to be in there.
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