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Author: Unknown
Subject: Escape char
Date: Thursday, 15 Oct 2020, 21:30:52

[...@cricket hw3]$ /c/cs323/Hwk3/mcBash 
(1)$ ${\sdf}
Invalid expansion
(1)$ ${sdf}
>> 
Hi, could you explain the difference?
I thought \ will escape the following character?
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