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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: question about csh quoting
Message-ID: <961@hao.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-May-84 21:40:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 10 21:40:34 1984
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  If the character following "!" is a space character (blank, tab or newline),
then history is not invoked. I use this fact all the time in my shell
scripts.

% echo "Don't do that! "

works just fine, and is a hell of a lot easier to type (*and* read!) than
backslashes.

			   GREG
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