Re: escaping exclamation in double quoted string

John Tromp wrote: > echo "hi\!" still shows the backslash Thank you for your report. However this is intended behavior. And it is also documented! :-) man bash Enclosing characters in double quotes preserves the literal value of all characters within the quotes, with the exception

escaping exclamation in double quoted string

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: sparc OS: solaris2.7 Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='sparc' -DCONF_OSTYPE='solaris2.7' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='sparc-sun-solaris2.7' -DCONF_VENDOR='sun' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_LARGEFILE

bash core dump in trap_handler

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i486 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i486' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i486-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='ba