13.11. Quoting
The TC shell has a whole set of metacharacters that have some special meaning. In fact, almost any character on your keyboard that is not a letter or a number has some special meaning for the shell. Here is a partial list:
* ? [ ] $ ~ ! ^ & { } ( ) > < | ; : %
The backslash and quotes are used to escape the interpretation of metacharacters by the shell. Whereas the backslash is used to escape a single character, the quotes can be used to protect a string of characters. There are some general rules for using quotes:
Quotes are paired and must be matched on a line. The backslash character can be used to escape a newline so that a quote can be matched on the next line.
Single quotes will protect double quotes, and double quotes will ...
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