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From: "Joey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Normally, a space is sort of a command that separates the command from
> the target, and the target from the parameters. The backslash is an
> escape character which tells the shell to process the character
> following the backslash as a character instead of a command. Get it?
> If not, I (or anyone else) can try to explain it a little better...

Better to just say that whitespace is a word or command "separator".

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