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B.2 Special Symbols

|Set up a pipe.
>Redirect output to a file.
<Redirect input from a file.
>>Append output to an existing file.
/Separator used in pathnames.
.Current directory.
..Parent directory.
&Process command in the background.
*Match any number of characters in filename.
?Match any single character in filename.
[]Match any one of the enclosed characters in filename.
;Command separator.
()Group commands.


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