Jakub Narebski wrote: > We have to go to quote.c to get to know why "!" is a special case too, > in addition to "'". The commit message for 77d604c3 (by H. Peter Anvin, > which is CC-ed) states: > > Create function to sq_quote into a buffer > Handle !'s for csh-based shells Although according to POSIX Enclosing characters in single-quotes ( '' ) shall preserve the literal value of each character within the single-quotes. A single-quote cannot occur within single-quotes. so "!" should be not treated as special character in POSIX shell, csh unfortunately does not follow this. Try $ echo '!!' in csh, tcsh (now that's funny) and bash (or dash). -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
