In bash, how do I escape an exclamation mark?

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Published on 2010-04-22T18:53:43Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 18:54 UTC
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I want to do something like bzr commit -m "It works!". I can sort of escape the exclamation mark by doing bzr commit -m "It works\!". However, then my commit message includes the backslash. How do I escape the exclamation mark, while still ignoring the backslash?

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