"Word" means something different in history expansion than it does in the
rest of the shell, because it happens before the normal lexical processing.
In effect, it means the same as an identifier in C.
A history expansion consists of a line selector (!cmdname) optionally
followed by colon and a wo
with bash-5.0.3, !foo-b reports
b
bash: b: command not found
even when foo-bar is in history.
there is nothing in the history expansion sectio of the man page which
would eve suggest that - cannot be part of string.
-JimC
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James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
