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In bash, how do I escape an exclamation mark?

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Mar 15, 2026153657 views

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I want to do something like . I can sort of escape the exclamation mark by doing . However, then my commit message includes the backslash. How do I escape the exclamation mark, while still ignoring the backslash?

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bzr commit -m "It works!"

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Since you do not depend on bash to expand variables in your commit message you could use single quotes instead. Strings in single quotes are not expanded by bash.

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