Bash, echo and an exclamation mark

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Bash, echo and an exclamation mark

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Learning something new every day!
Today I ran into the problem echoing a string in bash that contains an exclamation mark.
I'm pretty surprised, because I doubt that I never output a string like that before... Puzzling.

However.
Try the following in bash:

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echo "ouch!"
It returns:
-bash: !": event not found
WTF? :shock:

Read this:
http://qntm.org/bash
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