Tag: character

I have this very reduced example of a bash command, where I want the $ sign escaped. So the command : should print out: a simple $test does not work unfortunately. I tried lots of other stuff but still couldn’t find a solution. Any suggestions ? Answer Put it in single quotes rather than double quotes. The single quotes keep

I have searched for the list of metacharacters in Bash but space is not enlisted. I wonder if I’m right by assuming that space is the “token separation character” in Bash, since it not only works as such with Shell programs or builtins but also when creating an array through compound assignment – quotes escape spaces, just like they do