[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > John Tromp wrote: >> The idea of "escaping" a '!' with a backslash is rather lost if the >> escaping character shows through. Wouldn't it be more useful to >> remove the backslash? Now, when I want to echo the 3 characters >> '!', I have to do something like echo "'"'!'"'" whereas true >> escaping would allow the more readable echo "'\!'"
$ echo \'\!\' Since ! is an interactive only feature there is not much problem with readability anyway. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
