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From: chai@ta12.cs.uiuc.edu (Ian Chai)
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Subject: Info: \escape characters used with 'tr'
Date: 16 Oct 1994 20:42:20 -0500
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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.

God bless,
	Ian