Re: Broken $! behavior

2020-10-07 Thread Paul Fox
Thank you Chet - much appreciated. On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 16:41, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 10/7/20 7:56 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > It seems like consecutive $! are mis-processed. This has always worked - > > since csh days and bash 1.x. But sometime after 4.1 or 4.2, it got > broken. > > Heres my

Re: Broken $! behavior

2020-10-07 Thread Chet Ramey
On 10/7/20 7:56 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > It seems like consecutive $! are mis-processed. This has always worked - > since csh days and bash 1.x. But sometime after 4.1 or 4.2, it got broken. > Heres my system info and version data Thanks for the report. The shell rejects the second history expansion

Broken $! behavior

2020-10-07 Thread Paul Fox
It seems like consecutive $! are mis-processed. This has always worked - since csh days and bash 1.x. But sometime after 4.1 or 4.2, it got broken. Heres my system info and version data /home/fox/src/proc@allie: cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic