On 03/13/2014 06:17 PM, MFPA wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2014 at 2:31:06 PM, in > <mid:1730446.9J4b6oayU7@inno>, Hauke Laging wrote: > >> gpg --recipient 0xD4BC64B8\! > > I've never see it with a backslash before the exclamation mark. > What does the backslash add?
it tells your shell to avoid interpreting the ! as a shell
metacharacter. If your shell doesn't care about ! then the backslash is
unnecessary but shouldn't be a problem (standard shell escaping will
swallow it before passing on the literal ! to the shell's subprocess
(gpg in this case).
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