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Re: ! history expansion occurs within arithmetic substitutions
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Martin D Kealey |
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Re: ! history expansion occurs within arithmetic substitutions |
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Sat, 12 Aug 2023 06:19:42 +1000 |
On Sat, 12 Aug 2023, 02:29 Dale R. Worley, <worley@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> … The line is broken into words in the same fashion as when reading
> input, so that several metacharacter-separated words surrounded by quotes
> are considered one word. …
I think it would be helpful to start this sentence with "The selected
line…", to differentiate from the line just entered containing a "!".
If you want to rearrange things, it should go immediately after describing
phase 2.
-Martin
Re: !; is interpreted as an history expansion that can never match anything, Dale R. Worley, 2023/08/08
Re: !; is interpreted as an history expansion that can never match anything, Chet Ramey, 2023/08/08