> But remember that this also effects command line expansion inside
> shell scripts.  There are plenty of times you want dollar-sign
> expansion inside a shell script but don't want what is essentially a
> lame keyboard editing interface.  (If one wants a previous command in
> bash one can use Ctrl-R, or Ctrl-P which is quite a bit more WYSIWYG.)

History expansion is not enabled when the shell is not interactive.  A
quick read of the man page would have told you that.

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