Re: Unexpected Quick Substitution in string literals

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/14/23 2:59 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> writes:
> > > While declaring a string literal across multiple lines, a line starting
> > > with the ^ character is resulting in some sort of quick substitution
> > > processing.
> >
> > This is a standard form of history expansion, described in the man page.
>
> I just checked.  Certainly, the use of ^ is mentioned in the man page,
> but it isn't very clearly described, unfortunately.  In particular, ^ is
> only active at the beginning of a line, which doesn't seem to be
> described at all.

Good catch, that needs to be in there.

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