BASH and YES or ECHO cannot send "!"
Steffen Kluge
kluge at fujitsu.com.au
Wed Dec 14 03:12:05 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 11:40 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> $ echo "Hello there\!"
> Hello there\!
The double quotes take the shine off the backslash, so to speak, and
make it ordinary.
> $ echo 'Hello there!'
> Hello there!
$ echo Hello there\!
would have worked, too.
Cheers
Steffen.
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