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+.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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+.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
+.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
+.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+.\" without specific prior written permission.
+.\"
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+.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" @(#)csh.a 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93
+.\"
+.SH
+Appendix \- Special characters
+.LP
+The following table lists the special characters of
+.I csh
+and the \s-2UNIX\s0 system, giving for each the section(s) in which it
+is discussed.
+A number of these characters also have special meaning in expressions.
+See the
+.I csh
+manual section
+for a complete list.
+.ta .75i 1.5i 2.25i
+.LP
+Syntactic metacharacters
+.DS
+; 2.4 separates commands to be executed sequentially
+| 1.5 separates commands in a pipeline
+( ) 2.2,3.6 brackets expressions and variable values
+& 2.5 follows commands to be executed without waiting for completion
+.DE
+.LP
+Filename metacharacters
+.DS
+/ 1.6 separates components of a file's pathname
+\. 1.6 separates root parts of a file name from extensions
+? 1.6 expansion character matching any single character
+* 1.6 expansion character matching any sequence of characters
+[ ] 1.6 expansion sequence matching any single character from a set
+~ 1.6 used at the beginning of a filename to indicate home directories
+{ } 4.2 used to specify groups of arguments with common parts
+.DE
+.LP
+Quotation metacharacters
+.DS
+\e 1.7 prevents meta-meaning of following single character
+\' 1.7 prevents meta-meaning of a group of characters
+" 4.3 like \', but allows variable and command expansion
+.DE
+.LP
+Input/output metacharacters
+.DS
+< 1.5 indicates redirected input
+> 1.3 indicates redirected output
+.DE
+.LP
+Expansion/substitution metacharacters
+.DS
+$ 3.4 indicates variable substitution
+! 2.3 indicates history substitution
+: 3.6 precedes substitution modifiers
+^ 2.3 used in special forms of history substitution
+\` 4.3 indicates command substitution
+.DE
+.LP
+Other metacharacters
+.DS
+# 1.3,3.6 begins scratch file names; indicates shell comments
+\- 1.2 prefixes option (flag) arguments to commands
+% 2.6 prefixes job name specifications
+.DE
+.bp
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