LOL++ (Re: OT: It's arrived!)

[Paul Makepeace]

On Nov 9, 2007 3:13 AM, Jonathan Stowe <jns at gellyfish.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 10:33 +0000, Chisel Wright wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:03:43AM +0000, Andy Wardley wrote:
> > > But I'm still not sure I understand why it doesn't work.  It looks like
> > > a perfectly proper escaped newline to me.  What am I missing?
> >
> > The perl expression is in double quotes which means that bash sees the !
> > and tries to do bash-magic on it.
> >
>
> Yes but anyone who has tried running perl one-liners more than once will
> have been annoyed by this and would have switched off shell history
> expansion, like, you know, years ago.

And miss out on !!, !$, !-2:$, !:h, !*, !^

No chance!

P "muscle memory" M

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> set +H
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> /J\
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