Chet Ramey wrote: > On 9/8/17 4:18 AM, Philipp Sasse wrote:
> > Executing something like > > echo "foo > > bar" | sed '/foo/!d' > > results in an error. Apparently the history expansion considers only > > quoting characters on the same input line, so the closing double quote is > > taken as opening double quote, escaping the following single quotes, thus > > these don't escape the ! anymore. > History expansion is explicitly line-oriented, and always has been. If you say so. But it is nevertheless a highly unexpected and annoying behavior. > There's > not a clean way to make it aware of the shell's current quoting state I didn't look at the code, I just know it works in zsh. At least, the man page Should reflect this behavior, don't you think so? Should I write a patch for the man page? Best regards, Philipp. Testo Visual Systems GmbH, Sitz Titisee, Celsiusstraße 2, 79822 Titisee-Neustadt Handelsregister Freiburg HRB 712427 USt.IdNr. DE 297941089 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Rolf Merte, Patrick Zahn
