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What is the correct way to process files

Is there a general way I can use so as to process paths/files from your terminal without the need to backslash things?

Till recently I used to use

Code:

touch "file_here"

but it does not work if file_here contains any of the characters ` and ", I still need to backslash them if I want to make the command work.

Is there any workaround where backslashing characters are not needed?

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try this...

Code:

touch 'file_"name'
touch 'file_`name'

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