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Explain Like I'm Five
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This syntax works for me on Bash and Zsh. Your shell might have a different way of writing escape sequences.
Bash and Zsh are identical ??
They are not identical, but more they are quite compatible, most of Bash syntax and built-in commands work on Zsh as well. From what I’ve heard, Fish differs from them a lot. I use primarily Zsh, but sometimes run Bash if I need it for something (before ** started working on Zsh, I used Bash globstar when I needed it, for example).