Doubled control operators before `alert` will have their second characted appear in the body of the message

[Akbarkhon Variskhanov]

Patch attached below.

[Description]

Separating the first part of a list and the `alert` part with && (or any of the doubled control operators) will result the second character to be printed in the body of a message, for example with:

sleep 5s && alert

notify-send will display the following message:

sleep 5s &

which is obviously undesirable and not intended.

[Suggested fix]

Adding the asterisk after the [;&|] bracket expression fixes it:

alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]*\s*alert$//'\'')"'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: bash 5.0-6ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-40.44~20.04.2-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Dec 3 16:56:21 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-05-17 (200 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210209.1)
SourcePackage: bash
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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