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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 07:59:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: !! results in -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
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On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Robert Mark Bram wrote:
> Running "!!" =C2=A0or "!" gives me this:
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
>
> Any ideas what I can do about it?

For starters, read http://cygwin.com/problems.html and follow the
advice there; we need more information to help resolve this.

I'm assuming that the previous command you're trying to repeat worked
the first time with no such syntax error...

I can't reproduce this problem on my system (1.7/XP SP3).

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed AT gmail DOT com>

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