-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-05-03 at 19:38 -0000, Jim Henderson 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.
Ah... I'm starting to understand. I shortened the message to "no", because in my mail client the entire "line" was two lines". Thus I had no en "!", and didn't see the same error as the OP. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoB5bMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UynQCeIR9LAPGo4XA0oXCLvPP3nF6B S+EAmwQXGvmxCjFl1kPQfbtNRiRyfQLk =ZmCN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org