On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 09:24:35AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>
> > On 2020-08-14, Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > - i cannot work out what is with the \! examples. i know we try to make
> > > entries work for both csh and sh style shells, but stuff like this
> > > works without escaping:
> > >
> > > $ find . ! -type f
> >
> > Going through the CVS and SCCS history, I see that the examples
> > came with a rewrite of find(1) at Berkeley 30 years ago.
> >
> > csh's behavior that "for convenience, a `!' is passed unchanged
> > when it is followed by a blank, tab, newline, `=' or `('" has been
> > documented as such at least since the start of the CSRG repository
> > in 1985.
> >
> > bash, whose history substitution was modeled on csh, also shares
> > this behavior.
> >
> > I think it was never necessary to escape the '!' and the man page
> > examples were written with an abundance of caution and a lack of
> > understanding of csh's exact replacement mechanism.
>
> Yep, so I think that particular escape should be deleted.
>
done.
jmc
