On 15 Jun, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> IMHO it's more intuitive to write
>> "this is the tag\!"
>
> Yes, yes, yes! It *would* be more intuitive. But it does not work.
>
> jekyll:~$ echo $BASH_VERSION
> 2.05a.0(1)-release
> jekyll:~$ echo "this is the tag!"
> bash: !": event not found
> jekyll:~$ echo "this is the tag\!"
> this is the tag\!
> jekyll:~$ echo "this is the tag"\!
> this is the tag!
>
> This was all in the bug report I sent, and this is precisely what the
> bash maintainers have decided they will *not* fix.
Thank god, I don't use bash.
> All other shells I've tried handle this in the intuitive way; only
tcsh and zsh work in the intuitive way.
> bash keeps the backslash before ! inside double quotes.
No, I just noticed that the bourne shell FreeBSD uses (an enhanced ash,
I think) also prints the backslash, but without it, it prints the
exclamation mark. But the exclamation mark isn't a special character in
this context, so it is intuitive again.
How does the bourne shell (or POSIX) compatibility mode of bash handle
it?
Bye,
Alexander.
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