On 02/20/2011 04:39 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>> - find "$$@" -type d '!' -perm -200 -exec chmod u+w {} ';'; \
>>> + find "$$@" -type d ! -perm -700 -exec chmod u+rwx {} ';'; \
>>> rm -rf "$$@"; \
>>> fi;
>>
>> please don't remove the quoting from the ! here. It exists to
>> facilitate copy and pasting commands from make output to the command
>> line,
>>
> Why would the quoting being useful for that? As long as '!' is
> whitespace-separated from the following word, it's regarded by
> the shell as a literal character, even when the shell has history
> substutution enabled, no? Or am I missing something?You're missing history expansion. ! is special in some interactive shells when not in POSIX mode. It's better to quote ! than to risk a spurious history expansion. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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