Thanks, Nicolas - it worked perfectly.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 20:37, Nicolas Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> haha =)
>
> An exclamation mark has a special meaning for some terminals, related
> to command history. If I'm right, the command "!n" where n is an
> integer repeats the n-th last command; and "blabla!<tab> looks for
> older commands matching blabla.
>
> Anyway. I had the same problem. The only workaround I found was to
> disable the history search features in bash :
> Add :
> set +o histexpand
> at the bottom of ~/.bashrc,
> source ~/.bashrc
> and your problem should be fixed.
>
> Does anyone has a better workaround ?
>
>
> 2008/11/25 Chris Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > When I used replace.py and tried to use an "!" in the replace text, it
> > replaced it with a weird string of text (actually part of a replace
> command
> > I ran weeks ago).
> >
> > I've been able to fix everything except getting the ! where it should be.
> >
> > If I run:
> > python replace.py -cat:"The Transition Handbook" "-- Please do not remove
> "
> > "!-- Please do not remove "
> >
> > ...t doesn't change anything.
> >
> > If I try a backslash before the exclamation mark, "\!", it prompts to
> insert
> > it including the backslash.
> >
> > How do I just insert a "!"? I tried looking online but found nothing.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Chris
> >
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