- 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
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