Frequent Question: How Do I Use Special Characters in Linux?
Contents When You Quote a Special Character, You Prevent the Shell from Giving It Special Meaning. the Shell Treats a Quoted Special Character as a Regular...
When you quote a special character, you prevent the shell from giving it special meaning. The shell treats a quoted special character as a regular character. However, a slash (/) is always a separator in a pathname, even when you quote it. To quote a character, precede it with a backslash ().
How do I type special characters in Linux?
On Linux, one of three methods should work: Hold Ctrl + ⇧ Shift and type U followed by up to eight hex digits (on main keyboard or numpad). Then release Ctrl + ⇧ Shift .
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About Unix standard multi-key support
If a character is unavailable on the keyboard, you can insert the character by pressing the special Compose key followed by a sequence of two other keys. See the table below for the keys used to insert various characters. Note that in Amaya you can change the order of the two keys.
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