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Hi Aldo,

> Hi Greg,
> I appreciated you fast response. ?
> when I execute the following?
> echo "Un!sphere8" >> '/user/filename.txt'

! is a reserved word in the shell. 'man bash' for the rest of them.

Instead use one of:

echo Un\!sphere8 >> '/user/filename.txt'
echo 'Un!sphere8' >> '/user/filename.txt' 

You can read about the quoting rules in the man page as well.

-b

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