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: Escape

Any metacharacter can be represented as a normal ASCII character by preceding it with the (backslash).

For example,

rm filer
would delete file name filer NOT all file names beginning with fi and ending with ler.


Super-User
Fri Feb 17 15:55:40 EST 1995