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Using a special character without its special meaning

z/OS UNIX System Services User's Guide
SA23-2279-00

If you do not want to use the special sense of the metacharacters, instruct the shell to ignore them by escaping them or quoting them. To do this, you use:
  • \
  • ' '
  • " "

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