Ethan Glasser-Camp wrote:

> I think I see. So the backslash isn't counting as an escape character
> here, and so passes through without being removed, but does inhibit
> history expansion anyhow?

Yes.  This is where the basic incompatibility of csh-derived features
and Posix shows.

Chet
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