On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Sameer Kumbhare wrote:

I dont know whether to call this a bug, or a what.
But. whenever I go n press " !! ", the previous command I provided gets
enacted.

You are asking about the behaviour of the shell, but this mailing list covers only GNU coreutils.

Can u specify the reason please, or is it that it has been puposefully made.

This is a documented feature of bash (and possibly other shells):
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Event-Designators


Cheers,
Phil


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