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Another thread about escaping an exclamation point in bash.

I saw another thread here about this, and did some reading and googling and came to this conclusion:
You need to use single quotations. Am I missing something here? You can't use an apostrophe and an exclamation point together in an interactive shell?

Quote:

prdeltoid@home:~$ echo "I'd say: \"Go for it!\""
bash: !\"": event not found
prdeltoid@home:~$ echo 'I'd say: "Go for it!"'
bash: !"': event not found
prdeltoid@home:~$ echo "I'd say: \"Go for it\!\""
I'd say: "Go for it\!"

And so on. Very strange... I'm not complaining about this, but it's very strange that you can't have a combination of an apostrophe and an exclamation point no matter what you try. But at least in scripts, this isn't true... I guess it's not a big deal at all...

Code:

echo I\'d say: \"Go for it\!\"

#*$!@*! :doh:
I don't know why I didn't just think of that... I kept thinking "quotations, backslash, quotations, backslash". :doh: Thanks for pointing that out to me. I was just reading an example not long ago that wasn't using quotation marks, and for some reason I was sitting here unable to think of why I couldn't get this to work. I'm sleepy.

You can turn off history ("!") expansion:

Code:

~$ echo "I'd say: \"Go for it!\""

bash: !\"": event not found

~$ set +o histexpand

~$ echo "I'd say: \"Go for it!\""

I'd say: "Go for it!"

Code:

echo "I'd say: \"Go for it"'!'"\""

I'd say: "Go for it!"