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May 242011

Printing the exclamation mark using echo

Answer:

You might observed a problem when you try to print the exclamation mark (!) using the echo command

E.g.

# echo "test!"
-bash: !": event not found

To solve it, you can use single quote instead

# echo 'test!'
test!