On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 12:14, Mike McCarty wrote: > > 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". It's really no different than the way $var is handled inside double quotes vs. single quotes which goes all the way back to the bourne shell. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
