Using the escape character

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 z/VM guest

The quotation mark (") is the standard CP escape character. To include the escape character in a command that is passed to Linux®, you must type it twice.

Example

The following command passes a string in double quotation marks to be echoed.

#cp vinput pvmsg echo ""here is ""$0
CP VINPUT PVMSG ECHO "HERE IS "$0
echo "here is "$0
here is -bash

In the example, $0 resolves to the name of the current process.