Metacharacters

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1

I want to display an asterisk to the screen as part of a string. I know how to use the Backslash to escape it's value. But how do I display it without showing the Backslash?

2

If I understand this correctly, there are three ways to do this:

echo \*
echo "*"
echo '*'

Does this help?