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[Jim Henderson <hendersj@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 03 May 2009 21:19:48 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> > What Carlos is guessing is that instead of "||" Duaine/Laura entered
> > "!!" instead.
>
> Exactly.
>
> I tried to mistype the command here, but I didn't get a similar result,
> so I really don't know. Mmm... looking again, I see an exclamation at
> the end of the original command. Dunno. :-?

Based on the discussion with Randall, it seems that perhaps Cristian is 
using a csh derivitive where history expansion is disabled inside double 
quotes, and Duaine is using bash which doesn't.

My first attempt to duplicate Duaine's problem resulted in no duplication 
because I change my default shell to tcsh, and since Cristian didn't 
specify a shell, I just went with my default.

I see that bash does in fact interpret the line as a history expansion.

Jim

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