set playground="${HOME}/playground" set file1=${playground}'/fi$le1' set file2=${playground}'/file2$' set file3=${playground}'/f$i$l$e$3$' set file4=${playground}'/fi\$le4' mkdir -p ${playground} touch ${file1} touch ${file2} touch ${file3} touch ${file4} #### ls -la $HOME/playground total 8 drwxr-s--- 2 root root 4096 May 22 06:26 . drwxr-s--- 7 root root 4096 May 22 06:26 .. -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 06:26 f$i$l$e$3$ -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 06:26 fi$le1 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 06:26 fi\$le4 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 06:26 file2$ #### > touch $HOME/playground/fi\\\\\$le5 > ls -la $HOME/playground/ total 8 drwxr-s--- 2 root root 4096 May 22 22:57 . drwxr-s--- 7 root root 4096 May 22 06:26 .. -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 06:26 f$i$l$e$3$ -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 06:26 fi$le1 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 06:26 fi\$le4 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 22:57 fi\\$le5 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 06:26 file2$ #### drwxr-s--- 2 root root 4096 May 22 22:57 . drwxr-s--- 7 root root 4096 May 22 06:26 .. -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 06:26 fUNSPECIFIED$iUNSPECIFIED$lUNSPECIFIED$eUNSPECIFIED$3UNSPECIFIED$ -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 06:26 fiUNSPECIFIED$le1 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 06:26 fi\UNSPECIFIED$le4 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 22:57 fi\\UNSPECIFIED$le5 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 22 06:26 file2UNSPECIFIED$