Re: Quick question: mv !(file) !$

[Chet Ramey]

Yang Zhang wrote:
> Hi, why doesn't the second command work?  (Trying to move all files into
> a newly created directory.)
> 
> $ mkdir dhclient
> $ mv !(dhclient) !$
> bash: !: event not found

It doesn't work because enabling the `extglob' option doesn't cause bash
to tell the history library to not attempt history expansion when it sees
the history expansion character followed by a `('.  This will be fixed in
bash-4.0 or soon after.

Chet

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