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.\" @(#)csh.a 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93
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.\" $Id$
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.SH
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Appendix \- Special characters
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.LP
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The following table lists the special characters of
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.I csh
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and the \s-2UNIX\s0 system, giving for each the section(s) in which it
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is discussed.
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A number of these characters also have special meaning in expressions.
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See the
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.I csh
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manual section
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for a complete list.
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.ta .75i 1.5i 2.25i
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Syntactic metacharacters
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.DS
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; 2.4 separates commands to be executed sequentially
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| 1.5 separates commands in a pipeline
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( ) 2.2,3.6 brackets expressions and variable values
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& 2.5 follows commands to be executed without waiting for completion
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.DE
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.LP
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Filename metacharacters
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.DS
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/ 1.6 separates components of a file's pathname
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\. 1.6 separates root parts of a file name from extensions
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? 1.6 expansion character matching any single character
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* 1.6 expansion character matching any sequence of characters
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[ ] 1.6 expansion sequence matching any single character from a set
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~ 1.6 used at the beginning of a filename to indicate home directories
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{ } 4.2 used to specify groups of arguments with common parts
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.DE
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.LP
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Quotation metacharacters
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.DS
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\e 1.7 prevents meta-meaning of following single character
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\' 1.7 prevents meta-meaning of a group of characters
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" 4.3 like \', but allows variable and command expansion
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.DE
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.LP
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Input/output metacharacters
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.DS
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< 1.5 indicates redirected input
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> 1.3 indicates redirected output
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.DE
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.LP
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Expansion/substitution metacharacters
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.DS
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$ 3.4 indicates variable substitution
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! 2.3 indicates history substitution
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: 3.6 precedes substitution modifiers
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^ 2.3 used in special forms of history substitution
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\` 4.3 indicates command substitution
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.DE
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Other metacharacters
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.DS
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# 1.3,3.6 begins scratch file names; indicates shell comments
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\- 1.2 prefixes option (flag) arguments to commands
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% 2.6 prefixes job name specifications
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.DE
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