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31.SH
32Appendix \- Special characters
33.LP
34The following table lists the special characters of
35.I csh
36and the \s-2UNIX\s0 system, giving for each the section(s) in which it
37is discussed.
38A number of these characters also have special meaning in expressions.
39See the
40.I csh
41manual section
42for a complete list.
43.ta .75i 1.5i 2.25i
44.LP
45Syntactic metacharacters
46.DS
47; 2.4 separates commands to be executed sequentially
48| 1.5 separates commands in a pipeline
49( ) 2.2,3.6 brackets expressions and variable values
50& 2.5 follows commands to be executed without waiting for completion
51.DE
52.LP
53Filename metacharacters
54.DS
55/ 1.6 separates components of a file's pathname
56\&. 1.6 separates root parts of a file name from extensions
57? 1.6 expansion character matching any single character
58* 1.6 expansion character matching any sequence of characters
59[ ] 1.6 expansion sequence matching any single character from a set
60~ 1.6 used at the beginning of a filename to indicate home directories
61{ } 4.2 used to specify groups of arguments with common parts
62.DE
63.LP
64Quotation metacharacters
65.DS
66\e 1.7 prevents meta-meaning of following single character
67\' 1.7 prevents meta-meaning of a group of characters
68" 4.3 like \', but allows variable and command expansion
69.DE
70.LP
71Input/output metacharacters
72.DS
73< 1.5 indicates redirected input
74> 1.3 indicates redirected output
75.DE
76.LP
77Expansion/substitution metacharacters
78.DS
79$ 3.4 indicates variable substitution
80! 2.3 indicates history substitution
81: 3.6 precedes substitution modifiers
82^ 2.3 used in special forms of history substitution
83\` 4.3 indicates command substitution
84.DE
85.LP
86Other metacharacters
87.DS
88# 1.3,3.6 begins scratch file names; indicates shell comments
89\- 1.2 prefixes option (flag) arguments to commands
90% 2.6 prefixes job name specifications
91.DE
92.bp
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32.SH
33Appendix \- Special characters
34.LP
35The following table lists the special characters of
36.I csh
37and the \s-2UNIX\s0 system, giving for each the section(s) in which it
38is discussed.
39A number of these characters also have special meaning in expressions.
40See the
41.I csh
42manual section
43for a complete list.
44.ta .75i 1.5i 2.25i
45.LP
46Syntactic metacharacters
47.DS
48; 2.4 separates commands to be executed sequentially
49| 1.5 separates commands in a pipeline
50( ) 2.2,3.6 brackets expressions and variable values
51& 2.5 follows commands to be executed without waiting for completion
52.DE
53.LP
54Filename metacharacters
55.DS
56/ 1.6 separates components of a file's pathname
57\&. 1.6 separates root parts of a file name from extensions
58? 1.6 expansion character matching any single character
59* 1.6 expansion character matching any sequence of characters
60[ ] 1.6 expansion sequence matching any single character from a set
61~ 1.6 used at the beginning of a filename to indicate home directories
62{ } 4.2 used to specify groups of arguments with common parts
63.DE
64.LP
65Quotation metacharacters
66.DS
67\e 1.7 prevents meta-meaning of following single character
68\' 1.7 prevents meta-meaning of a group of characters
69" 4.3 like \', but allows variable and command expansion
70.DE
71.LP
72Input/output metacharacters
73.DS
74< 1.5 indicates redirected input
75> 1.3 indicates redirected output
76.DE
77.LP
78Expansion/substitution metacharacters
79.DS
80$ 3.4 indicates variable substitution
81! 2.3 indicates history substitution
82: 3.6 precedes substitution modifiers
83^ 2.3 used in special forms of history substitution
84\` 4.3 indicates command substitution
85.DE
86.LP
87Other metacharacters
88.DS
89# 1.3,3.6 begins scratch file names; indicates shell comments
90\- 1.2 prefixes option (flag) arguments to commands
91% 2.6 prefixes job name specifications
92.DE
93.bp
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