Protecting From Expansion: Backslash

• Backslash ( \ ) is the escape character and makes the next character literal
  • $ echo Your cost: \$5.00
• Used as last character on line to "continue command on next line"
  • $ echo "This long sample string will be echoed \
  • > back as one long line"
  • This very long sample string will be echoed back as one long line