BASH and YES or ECHO cannot send "!"

[Steffen Kluge]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 11:40 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> $ echo "Hello there\!"
> Hello there\!

The double quotes take the shine off the backslash, so to speak, and
make it ordinary.

> $ echo 'Hello there!'
> Hello there!

$ echo Hello there\!

would have worked, too.

Cheers
Steffen.

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