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  • In some shells with history expansion (bash included), ! is still expanded in double quotes, only single quotes will stop its expansion (or turning the shell option off). Commented Sep 15, 2011 at 18:46
  • ] should not be quoted, [ not always. I didn't find any reference to { and } Commented Sep 15, 2011 at 18:57