On 5/27/21 11:43 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
True, but bash accepts it.
The manual doesn't document that extension, though.
The bash manual documents the bash implementation. You can argue that it's
not clear enough that it allows multiple `!' operators, but it does not say
that it uses the POSIX grammar as a base and documents deviations.
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