Error from bash I've never seen before.

Steve Grace sgrace at pobox.com
Wed Apr 14 15:00:24 UTC 2010


> On 04/13/2010 02:15 PM, Ray Parrish wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was just trying to run a short script that allows me to Tweet on
>> Twitter from the command line, and got a strange error I don't know how
>> to diagnose. Here is the error message -
>>
>> ray at RaysComputer:~$ Tweet.sh "OPB Radio rocks the state of Oregon!"
>> bash: !": event not found
>> ray at RaysComputer:~$

Try escaping the "!" with a backslash character:

    ray at RaysComputer:~$ Tweet.sh "OPB Radio rocks the state of Oregon\!"




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