title: How do I escape an exclamation mark in bash?
body: <p>Sometimes I feel the urge to put some more expressiveness in my git commit messages. Unfortunately bash does not seem to like this.</p>
  
  <pre><code>iblue@silence ~/git/wargames $ git commit -m "Frustrating &lt;insert object of frustration here&gt;!"
  -bash: !": event not found
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Escaping with a backslash helps, but this includes the backslash in the commit message.</p>
  
  <p>How do I escape the exclamation mark in bash correctly?</p>