wwp wrote:
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..
My point was to confirm and strengthen what you said. Even
"old" users of bash find it confusing and find little
"gotchas" hidden in unexplored nooks and crannies.
And, for bash, the FM has gotten too Fing big to read
reasonably because it has too Fing many "features".
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!
