Subject: shell expansions
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/29/2000 00:42:13
Are shells allowed to expand '!'s inside double quotes?  The most
recent bash (2.04.0(1)-release (i386--netbsd)) gripes about the
following:

        $ echo "ouch!"
        bash: !": event not found

In contrast, /bin/sh echos "ouch!" exactly as I had expected.

-wolfgang
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