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echo: rberrypi
to: DENNIS LEE BIEBER
from: AHEM A RIVET`S SHOT
date: 2020-12-06 21:34:00
subject: Re: Which dotfiles are wo

On Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:57:41 -0500
Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:

> The normal escape for Linux appears to be a \ before the space.

 In most unix shells you can use \ to escape a single character or
use single or double quotes (in double quotes variable expansion happens in
single quotes it doesn't) or if those seem too much typing then ? matches
any single character including space. These conventions predate Linux by
quite some time.

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