Hello Mike McCarty, On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:45:37 -0600 Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. [snip] Hmm sorry for this confusion, my remark was more general and not especially dealing w/ your former post, and new was between (), just to point that the sentence could even apply to new users. So let's consider how a bash newbie would be confused to discover that a single ! between "" has a special meaning :-). Of course, RTFM.. Regards, -- wwp
