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Re: Bash 5.0-alpha tries to expand exclamation marks in quoted strings

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  Re: Bash 5.0-alpha tries to expand exclamation marks in quoted strings Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-06-20 22:11 -0400

#14262 — Re: Bash 5.0-alpha tries to expand exclamation marks in quoted strings

On 6/20/18 6:29 PM, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> I don't think this is intentional:
> 
> [bero@c64 ~]$ echo "test!!"
> echo "testecho "testecho "test!"""
> testecho testecho test!

It's impossible to say whether or not this is correct without knowing
what's in your history. Double quotes don't inhibit history expansion,
and never have.

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