Package: bash Version: 4.1-3 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line ***
In interactive shells, bash attempts to do history expansion for the "!" in "$!" when followed by a non-space. This works: % echo & echo $! This also works: % echo & echo $! ; echo But this one gives an error: % echo & echo $!; echo -bash: !: event not found This is particularly annoying if you typed a longer command containing "$!", since it's not kept in the history (cf. #510622), so it can't be easily edited to insert a space. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 5.8 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii dash 0.5.5.1-6 POSIX-compliant shell ii debianutils 3.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand Versions of packages bash recommends: pn bash-completion <none> (no description available) Versions of packages bash suggests: pn bash-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
