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Escaping Special Characters ()

Escaping characters are used to enable the use of control characters in the shell expansion but without interpreting it by the shell.

Example:

Look at the above snapshot, we have shown the use of some special characters.

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Ending A Line ()

A backslash when used at the end of a line, will direct you to the next line. The shell doesn’t interpret the escaping character and wait for the execution until a new line ends without a backslash.

Look at the above snapshot, all the lines are ended with a backslash ().