Updated about_Special_Characters documentation and removed duplicate article by sdwheeler · Pull Request #1825 · MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs

Sean Wheeler (sdwheeler) · 2017-11-01T22:39:16Z

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about_Escape_Characters.md was a duplicate of about_Special_Characters.md. I deleted about_Escape_Characters.md and consolidated all the information into about_Special_Characters.md.

Also addressed Issue #1370

Sandra Aldana (saldana) · 2017-11-01T23:07:08Z

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Sandra Aldana (saldana) · 2017-11-02T14:17:42Z

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Sean Wheeler (sdwheeler) · 2017-11-02T15:59:32Z

Zachary Alexander (@zjalexander) - Can you review and merge?

`about_escape_characters.md` was deleted in MicrosoftDocs#1825

* Add `windows-powershell` to link * Remove `/reference/docs-conceptual` from links * Retarget redirect to `about_special_characters` `about_escape_characters.md` was deleted in #1825 * Remove redirects to nonexistent cmdlets see also: #1580, #1565 * Remove `module/Pester` redirects pester docs were removed in #1996 * Remove `oss, `mkdir` redirects targets were removed in #2749 * Remove `help.md` redirect target removed in #2592 * Remove broken redirects targets deleted in #2479 * Fix redirect to `about/about` * Fix redirect to `migrating-from-windows-powershell-51-to-powershell-7` * Fix `Getting-Started-with-Windows-PowerShell` redirects

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Sean Wheeler (sdwheeler) requested a review from Zachary Alexander (zjalexander) November 2, 2017 15:59

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Sean Wheeler (sdwheeler) deleted the sdw-issue1370 branch November 8, 2017 16:59

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