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Exclamation Mark as a command line argument

  • 02-09-2005 09:36AM
    #1
    cgarvey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,890 ✭✭✭


    In bash, how do I do 
    echo "Hello World!"
    without the ! being interpreted as having a command history meaning, which is what I assume is happening here...
    # echo "hello world!"
bash: !": event not found

    ... ta

    .cg


Comments

  • #2
    krinDar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭krinDar 


    echo 'Hello world!'

    If you use single quotes the special character (in this case '!') will not be interpreted.

    Another method is to escape the exclamation mark: 
    echo Hello world \!

    Again this will prevent the shell from interpreting the special character.


  • #3
    cgarvey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,890 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    Cool, ta muchly!


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