On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 4:10 PM Herbert Xu <herbert@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