In shell scripting if text is surrounded by single quotes
what does it denotes?

Answer Posted / guest

All characters enclosed between a pair of single quote
marks(''), except a single quote, are quoted by the
shell. Backslash has no special meaning inside a pair of
single quotes.

'\n' "\n"

Inside double quote command substitution and filename
generation takes place

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