title: How do I escape the wildcard/asterisk character in bash?
body: <p>For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>me$ FOO="BAR * BAR"
  me$ echo $FOO
  BAR file1 file2 file3 file4 BAR
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and using the <code>\</code> escape character:</p>
  
  <pre><code>me$ FOO="BAR \* BAR"
  me$ echo $FOO
  BAR \* BAR
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm obviously doing something stupid.</p>
  
  <p>How do I get the output <code>BAR * BAR</code>?</p>