What's the meaning of \ command in bash console?

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Answer 1

If i remember good it help you ls dir with tab of course.

Answer 2

See the simple example:
if you need to print My name is "Kazi". like this.
normally you will write in python :
print(" My name is "Kazi".")
but output will be error.
so, you have to use:
print("My name is \"Kazi\".")
command in python to see
like:My name is " Kazi".
u can search in google(use of \ in Python) to more.

Answer 3

If you want to print statement which is in direct speech for example - print("John said, "I am not John"") ; this will give you errors to deal with because the compiler is confused when he reads this --> ...John"");
You can use \ command before this ".
So the final code will be --> print("John said, \"I am not John\"") ;

Answer 4

You can try to use Google ;) A backslash escapes the next character from being interpreted by the shell. If the next character is a newline, then the newline will not be interpreted as the end of the command by the shell. It effectively allows the a command to span multiple lines.