"\" prefacing commands (was: forcing overwrite with cp in FC5)

Marcelo Magno T. Sales marcelo.sales at sefaz.pe.gov.br
Tue Sep 19 12:41:43 UTC 2006


Hi, Pete

Em Terça 19 Setembro 2006 08:29, Pete Geenhuizen escreveu:

> When in doubt and far simpler is to preface the
> command with \
> i.e \cp file1 file2

I liked that hint! I didn't know about this use of "\", other than escaping 
special characters. Where do I find more information about this? The "\" 
prefacing the command is usefull only to ignore an alias with the same name 
or this is a collateral effect of other functionality?

Thanks,

Marcelo




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