6. Can I Quote You on That?
In This Chapter
This chapter teaches you about a unique feature of the shell programming language: the way it interprets quote characters. Basically, the shell recognizes four different types of quote characters:
• The single quote character '
• The double quote character "
• The backslash character \
• The back quote character `
The first two and the last characters in the preceding list must occur in pairs, whereas the backslash character is unary in nature. Each of these quotes has a distinct meaning to the shell. We’ll cover them in separate sections of this chapter.
The Single Quote
There are several reasons that you might ...
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