On Wednesday 16 July 2008 04:47, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > Description: > In all contexts in which a character "X" has special meaning to bash, it > should be possible to insert that character literally by writing "\X". > This fails in one case: where "X" is "!", and the context is inside double > quotes.
That is documented in man bash, and only appens in interactive shells (not scripts). You can disable history expansion (set +H, set +o histexpand) to avoid the problem, or use \! outside double quotes.
