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From: meissner@DG-RTP.DG.COM (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: BASH History command character from HELL
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Date: 22 Jun 89 13:06:41 GMT
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It appears without turning off csh-style history completely (with the
set +o command), there is no way to pass a ! character to a child
process.  I've tried the following:

	Mail site\!user
	Mail 'site!user'
	Mail "site!user"
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