What characters need to be escaped in bash?

Question

bash

Hi all. I know that spaces and parentheses must be escaped in file paths when accessed through the console. What other characters need to be escaped?

Answer 1

$, &, |, \, ". In general, anything that can be interpreted by the shell in one way or another.
Alternatively, you can use trailing quotes, like this: '/home/user/dir 1/dir 2' , then you don't need to escape.