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Re: Usage of " !! ", in Unix
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Philip Rowlands |
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Re: Usage of " !! ", in Unix |
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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:37:51 +0000 (GMT) |
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Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Sameer Kumbhare wrote:
I dont know whether to call this a bug, or a what.
But. whenever I go n press " !! ", the previous command I provided gets
enacted.
You are asking about the behaviour of the shell, but this mailing list
covers only GNU coreutils.
Can u specify the reason please, or is it that it has been puposefully made.
This is a documented feature of bash (and possibly other shells):
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Event-Designators
Cheers,
Phil