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→INVESTIGATION 3: QUOTING SPECIAL CHARACTERS
= INVESTIGATION 3: QUOTING SPECIAL CHARACTERS =
As discussed in the above section, there are some special characters that the shell uses to perform an operation; for example, the filename expansion symbols: * or ?�
There is a method to instruct the Linux shell to ignore the purpose of a special character and just interpret as regular text.
In this section, you will learn three unique methods to quote special characters.