BASH and YES or ECHO cannot send "!"

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 12:14, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Hmm sorry for this confusion, my remark was more general and not especially
> > dealing w/ your former post, and new was between (), just to point that the
> > sentence could even apply to new users. So let's consider how a bash newbie
> > would be confused to discover that a single ! between "" has a special
> > meaning :-). Of course, RTFM..
> 
> My point was to confirm and strengthen what you said. Even
> "old" users of bash find it confusing and find little
> "gotchas" hidden in unexplored nooks and crannies.
> 
> And, for bash, the FM has gotten too Fing big to read
> reasonably because it has too Fing many "features".

It's really no different than the way $var is handled inside
double quotes vs. single quotes which goes all the way back
to the bourne shell.

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  Les Mikesell
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