Changed handling of "!" in /bin/sh?

[Luke Kendall]

On 17 Jan, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>  On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:14:27PM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: 
>  >Eric Blake wrote on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:18 PM: 
>  >> According to Luke Kendall on 1/16/2007 6:53 PM: 
>  >>>  
>  >>> Or, copy /bin/ash.exe to replace /bin/sh.exe. 
>  >>  
>  >> Not recommended.  The reason cygwin moved to bash as 
>  >> /bin/sh was to avoid ash bugs.  
>  > 
>  >I thought that it was more to avoid all the complaints 
>  >that sh did not behave like bash, which is what many 
>  >people expected. 
>   
>  You're right that was also a reason. 

Wow, I'm really showing my age, aren't I? :-)

luke


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