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Shell Metacharacters

Shell Metacharacters definition - hacker
Characters used for input or output in UNIX shells having special meaning. For the shell, these include wildcards, quotes, and logical operators.

See Also: Shell.

Currie, M. Glossary. [Online, January 9, 1998.] University of Leeds Computer Based Learning Website. http://www.starlink.rl.ac.uk/star/docs/sc4.htx/node75 .html.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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