“Event not found” error for shell command in unix

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when i am trying to remove consecutive duplicate lines with

awk "!x[$0]++" file

its reporting x[: Event not found.

even the same case with

sed -i -e "$!N; /^\(.*\)\n\1$/!P;D" file as well reporting

N: Event not found. i tried with single quotes too, it didn't help

Any idea to fix those

Answer 1

You're invoking the shell's history substitution. Surround the exclamation point with single quotes.