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From: jeff1@stretch.cs.mun.edu (Jeff Sparkes)
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Subject: Re: problems with !
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Date: 15 Sep 89 18:59:51 GMT
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Rob McMahon writes:
 > In article <429@stretch.MUN.EDU> you write:
 > >bash-1.03 on a sun4 - sunos4
 > >
 > >The first is that history expansion takes place even when ! is in quotes,
 > >either single or double.  ...
 > >$ echo "!ls"
 > >ls": Event not found.
 > 
 > This is a feature, and the same as csh.  It can be useful in things like
 > 
 > 	echo "!$"
 > 

	However, notice that it says ls" not found.  The quote
stripping is not done correctly.