bug in quoting of "!"

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1 total messages Started by scott Thu, 29 Oct 1992 19:55

Author: scott
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 19:55

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  The following is a sample of a difficulty I've experienced:
	Script started on Thu Oct 29 13:39:05 1992
	bash$ echo $BASH_VERSION
	1.12.1
	bash$ pwd
	/share/log
A)	bash$ echo '\!'
A)	\!
	bash$ pwd
	/share/log
B)	bash$ echo '!'
B)	echo 'pwd'
B)	pwd
	bash$ exit
	
	script done on Thu Oct 29 13:39:33 1992

  One of these should work, but the only way to actually get an
exclamation point into a string in the shell is to explicitly
quote it *only* with a backslash:
	echo 'hi'\!'bunky'
					Scott

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