Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Chet Ramey wrote:
Yes, this is where the semantics of history expansion clash with traditional
shell behavior. Only single quotes inhibit history expansion.
In that case, situation number 3 is producing the wrong result, since there
are no single quotes there, only a backslash.
OK, you got me. Unquoted backslashes inhibit history expansion also.
Chet
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