Thank you Chet - much appreciated.
On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 16:41, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 10/7/20 7:56 AM, Paul Fox wrote: > > It seems like consecutive $! are mis-processed. This has always worked - > > since csh days and bash 1.x. But sometime after 4.1 or 4.2, it got > broken. > > Heres my system info and version data > > Thanks for the report. The shell rejects the second history expansion > because it takes it for a `$!' word expansion. I'll look at this after > bash-5.1 is released. > > Chet > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ >