man bash:
---------
histchars
The two or three characters which control history
expansion and tokenization (see HISTORY EXPANSION
below). The first character is the history expan�
sion character, the character which signals the
start of a history expansion, normally `!'. The
second character is the quick substitution charac�
ter, which is used as shorthand for re-running the
previous command entered, substituting one string
for another in the command. The default is `^'.
The optional third character is the character which
indicates that the remainder of the line is a com�
ment when found as the first character of a word,
normally `#'. The history comment character causes
history substitution to be skipped for the remain�
ing words on the line. It does not necessarily
cause the shell parser to treat the rest of the
line as a comment.
---------
the ^ bash command runs the previous command, substituting args
specified. Not sure exactly how the substitution works tho. Can you
post a snippet of the script?
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:54:56 -0500, Jim.Hyslop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark E. Hamilton wrote:
> > His error was:
> >
> > >>bash: :s^blindmonkey (date; cat; (sleep 2; cd
> > >>/home/rublind/public_html/blindmonkey; cvs -q update -d) &) >>
> > >>/var/chroot/cvs/cvs/CVSROOT/updatelog 2>&1: substitution failed
> [...]
> > in bash I get the same error
> >
> > -bash: :s^test: substitution failed
>
> Ah, my apologies, rublind, I missed the "substition failed" part of your
> message.
>
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