Quoting of special characters

vibhor_agarwali · #1 (**permalink**) 01-28-2005

Hello,

I am getting very confused as to where should i quote special/metacharacters in shell.

Sometimes i write * directly and it works, othertimes i have to do "*".
Same is the case with other special characters like /,\,.,$,etc.

Can somebody give me link to somewhere where i can found some detailed documentation of this, if not stated here ;-)

nix_logix · #2 (**permalink**) 01-30-2005

This is the book (skill set) you need...pick it up on-line or at any
book store.

There are plenty of free resources available here...

http://www.google.com/search?q=regul...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

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