Re: [Hampshire] Regular Expressions

Simon Reap (work) wrote:
>>
> reaps@saki:~$ rm ~/.bash_history
> reaps@saki:~$ exec bash
> reaps@saki:~$ echo "Don't do that!"
> bash: !": event not found
> reaps@saki:~$ bash -version
> GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> reaps@saki:~$
>
> That's one of the reasons I don't like bash!
To be fair to bash, it's actually the "!" which is causing the problem:

reaps@saki:~$ echo "Don't do that"\!
Don't do that!
reaps@saki:~$

Simon

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