A pair of double quotes (“) will prevent the shell from interpreting any metacharacter.

A pair of double quotes (") will prevent the shell from interpreting some metacharacters, but it allows the shell to interpret variables and certain other metacharacters. Inside double quotes, variables will be expanded, meaning their values will be substituted into the string. However, most other special characters (such as wildcard characters like * or commands enclosed in backticks) are treated literally within double quotes. If you want to prevent all metacharacters from being interpreted and use the string exactly as it is, you would use single quotes (') as mentioned in the previous answer.