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From: Tony Nugent <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au>
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Subject: Info: \escape characters used with 'tr'
Date: 18 Oct 1994 01:55:38 -0500
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chai@ta12.cs.uiuc.edu (Ian Chai) writes:

>Tony Nugent  <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au> wrote:
>>>Well, these last two are not all that exciting, but you get the
>>>general idea.  (Note that you must use "\" to escape certain
>>>characters for tr).

>boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison) writes:
>>   What are the characters that must be escaped?

>Any character that the shell would interpret as a special character.
>What exactly those characters are depends on what shell you're using.
>But most shells I know of require * & $ ^ ! ; ~ ` " < > ? \ escaped.

Ian, thanks for the followup.  I didn't have the time to
investigate the all potential characters.

I also found that the # character also needs escaping (it's
interpreted as commenting out the rest of the line in some
shells).

Cheers
Tony
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