Guidelines for quoting command arguments
- \\
 
- prevent the shell from expanding
any single special character.
 
- '  '
 
- prevent the shell from expanding
all special characters enclosed in this string except
 !.
 
- "  "
 
- prevent the shell from expanding any enclosed special character
except
 $, ` and !.
 
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