SVN cli commit with escape characters

Using SVN at the command prompt I usually commit with the commit message in the same line. For example:

svn commit -m "Initial checkin"

When I want to use shell reserved characters though such as the exclamation in:

svn commit -m "It finally works!"

It will kick out as an error because the shell is t开发者_如何学Pythonrying to do something other than just the svn command. So I can escape the bang like:

svn commit -m "woohoo\!"

And then the commit goes through just fine, but now my commit message literally says woohoo\!. Is there a way without using the message editor screen (I think it's vim or nano) for your message to get things like this to display properly?

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Try single quotes - most (all?) unix shells leave them alone

svn commit -m 'It finally works!'