keycode for exclamation mark with adb shell input

Question

How can I enter a "!" via adb? I can't find the keycode anywhere and it isn't coming across with I use adb shell input text !

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hmm- adb shell input text ! seems to work fine for me: just to be clear, that's not working for you? Or have I misunderstood? — Tom
– Tom, Commented Aug 27, 2013 at 14:33
which version of android you are using ? Is it throwing any errors while issuing the command? I am able to enter ! character via adb shell input text ! — Rilwan
– Rilwan, Commented Aug 28, 2013 at 5:15
I checked again. It seems that the issue is when the ! is the last character run in a batch file: @echo off adb wait-for-device adb shell input text xyzabc! — halcyon27
– halcyon27, Commented Aug 29, 2013 at 21:44
This is still not working for me: adb shell input text "!1234" returns -bash: !1234: event not found — Vijay
– Vijay, Commented Apr 15, 2015 at 22:20

Jon Goodwin · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-13 11:55:13Z

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you need to escape the following characters:

( ) < > | ; & * \ ~ " ' 'escaping' means putting a backslash ( \ ) before the offending character.

space is escaped by using %s

 adb shell input text \!

There is no keycode for !.

answered Jul 13, 2015 at 11:43

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escaping means putting the escape symbol before the offending character. not every OS/shell uses \ for that purpose

I also say "space is escaped by using %s" ;O) Were talking about adb shell here.