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