Shell Programming and Scripting

This evaluates to the three tokens "cp", "junk\junk.txt", "junkjunk.txt" -- note the single backslash in the actual file name. You double the backslash because the shell interprets backslashes outside of single quotes. But when you add quotes, the backslash should be single:

Code:

mv 'junk\junk.txt' junkjunk.txt

If you have a variable with the value in it, just take care to double-quote the variable.

Code:

var='junk\junk.txt'  # single backslash only!!  or var=junk\\junk.txt without quotes
mv "$var" junkjunk.txt