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From: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.uucp
Subject: Re: Wierd HDB/Permissions problems (again)
Summary: shell schizophrenia
Message-ID: <246@quad.uucp>
Date: 26 Aug 89 01:25:08 GMT
References: <2328@flatline.UUCP> <29@tons61.UUCP> <1372@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> <2352@flatline.UUCP> <1399@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Reply-To: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
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In article <1399@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> rich@jolnet.orpk.il.us (Rich Andrews) writes:
:In article <2352@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
:>"\!" is how you type a "!" when you're using /bin/ksh.  The "!"
:>alone is a command for the shell, so you have to escape it.
:
:Gee, what command is that?  I use ksh all the time on several machines
:and never had to escape "!".  

Maybe he's thinking of csh, where "!" is a very important
metacharacter, of course.  Ksh (and sh, for that matter) do
have the "$!", which is the PID of the last background job,
but to my knowledge that's the only place that "!" has any
special meaning to ksh.

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                                  David Sandberg - Quadric Systems
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