On 12/02/2014 02:28 AM, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 11:12:51AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 12/01/2014 10:56 AM, Chema F. Ledesma wrote:
>>>
>>> If you execute echo "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" it does something strange
>>> repeating the last command before echo comand.
>>
>> Thanks for the report.  However, this is not a bug in 'echo', but a
>> feature of your shell.
> 
> And because of this you can use single quotes instead of double quotes to
> print those exclamation marks:
> 
> $ echo '!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or turn off history expansion:

$ set +o history
$ echo "!!!!"
!!!!

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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