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14.2 Using quotes and backslashes

You can use quotes (") in a command to embed spaces into file names. For instance,

read some file

will read file some from the disk image and write it into the file system as file, while

read "some file"

will copy some file into the file system, with the name some file.

The backslash character (\) has a special meaning too: it lets you literally insert the following character no matter what it is. For example,

read some\ file

will copy file some file into the file system, while

read some\ file this\"file

will copy some file into the file system with name this"file (with an embedded quote).