CDFAE1321E The command failed because an escape character precedes a character that is not a syntactic symbol.

Explanation

A "syntactic symbol" is a symbol such as a backslash (\) or asterisk (*) that, when it is part of a string that is specified in a command, results in special processing. Sometimes, you want this special processing to be suppressed and for the symbol to be interpreted as a normal character. To to this, precede the character with an escape character. This message is returned when an escape character precedes another character that is not also a syntactic symbol.