wwp wrote:
Hello jdow,
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:41:52 -0800 "jdow" <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: "Synister Syntax" <synistersyntaxlist@xxxxxxxxx>
echo "Hello World! "
also works...
Just don't have !" on top of each other like that. An extra
spcae should't get in the way?
Hope this adds to your research.
Of coure, "!" is an annoyance. "&" can kill a machine.
echo this will destroy your machine & rm -rf /
is not quite the same thing as
echo "This won't destroy your machine & rm -rf /"
ALWAYS be careful about quoting when using special characters.
[snip]
The point would be for a (new) user to know that ! is a special one :-),
that's not trivial.
I'm hardly a "new" user of bash. I've used it since about 1994
or so on HPUX, Solaris, and now Linux.
Frankly, I think that bash has gotten too big and ambitious
for its own good. There comes a time when another bell or whistle
is *not* a good thing.
The cshell is even worse.
Mike
--
p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}
This message made from 100% recycled bits.
You have found the bank of Larn.
I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!
