Comment on Pythonpy – Command-line Kung Fu with PythonparentComments−rjgray11yIt's required to prevent the shell from interpreting and expanding special characters. e.g. in the example you provide, without quotes * will be expanded to a list of files in the current directory.
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It's required to prevent the shell from interpreting and expanding special characters. e.g. in the example you provide, without quotes * will be expanded to a list of files in the current directory.