On 10/12/15 7:02 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> It happens in posix mode.
> ---
> How lame! It's a '!' in a quoted string. Another example
> of posix braindeath -- how long before people realize that the
> thing branded 'posix' now isn't the real posix that was started
> to *describe* behaviors, not prescribe or proscribe behaviors.
Do you realize that this prompt expansion was in ksh since at least
ksh-86? ksh-88 was one of the Posix base documents, and that
expansion was estabished behavior by the time Posix started its work.
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