10:22 a.m.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 4:10 PM Herbert Xu <herbert(a)gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
The quoting on "!" doesn't help I'm afraid. Even though [ is a
built-in it is not allowed to look at the quoting because it's
supposed to behave in the same way whether you get the builtin [
or the one from /usr/bin.
So when it gets the expression the quoting on the "!" has already
been removed.
Oh Gods, that's truly disgusting.
But I guess from a historical perspective, it actually makes a nasty
kind of horrible sense.
What a crock. Oh well. We had the workaround already, so it's not like
this causes any heartache aside from "shell is even worse than most
people can imagine".
Linus