From: Lars Wirzenius (wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI)
Date: 05/26/93


From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP question
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 08:39:05 GMT

cc_paul@rcvie.co.at (Wolf N. Paul) writes:
>You need to quote any argument with a '!' in it, or simply escape the
>'!' with a backslash. So, either of these commandlines should work:

Actually, several shells (tcsh, csh, bash, at least) that support the
! notation for history references process the history references
before ' and " quotes, so using them doesn't help much. So you have
to use a backslash. Or you can be smart (like me :), and turn off the
backslash quotation altoghether.

"!, just say no"