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Shell metacharacters

Some important metacharacters in the shell:

`...` run command in `...` and replace with output
\ escape, for example \c take character c literally
'...' take literally without interpreting the contents
"..." take literally after processing $, `...` and \



Amit Jain 2013-04-22