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Providing a backslash (\) before the wild card to remove its special meaning is called _____

(a) escaping

(b) quoting

(c) listing

(d) pattern matching

I had been asked this question in an online quiz.

My doubt stems from Pattern Matching, Escaping and Quoting in portion The Shell of Unix

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Correct option is (a) escaping

Explanation: We know that shell uses some special characters to match filenames or perform other search and replace operations. But if the filename itself contains those special characters, then it could be a great nuisance. For dealing with such files we use escaping and quoting.

Escaping means providing a backslash (\) before the wild card so that its special meaning could be removed. For example, if we want to remove a file named chap*, then using the command rm chap* will delete all the file beginning with a prefix ’chap’. In this situation, we can use the following command,

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