UNIX Quoting

  • Double Quotes
    • "this stuff is quoted"
    • stops interpretation of some shell special characters (whitespace mostly)

  • Single Quotes
    • 'this stuff is quoted too'
    • stops interpretation of even more specials ($ and backquotes)

  • Backslash
    • quotes the next character
    • lets one escape all of the shell special characters

  • Control-V
    • quotes the next character
    • lets one get weird stuff into the command line