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backslash need special handling, need to escape \ with another \ for the shell, need to escape \ with another \ for the grep command

e.g. to search for \..\ in myfile.txt

The test file :-

case 1: grep without enclosing the pattern within quotes :-

case 2: grep using quotes to enclose the escaped backslash (backslash+backslash)