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[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 03 May 2009 20:48:42 Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Sunday May 3 2009, Anders Johansson wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 May 2009 20:02:37 Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > This is nonsensical. The ! was followed by a character not allowed
> > > in history expansions.
> >
> > Sure it's allowed
> >
> > ...
> >
> > It just didn't get any hits because no previous command started with
> > a "
>
> OK, but Jim H's saying "...  it's interpreting the "!" incorrectly" is
> also not correct.

Sure, since it was in double quotes instead of apostrophes (and not escaped) 
bash expanded it as it should

Anders
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