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?What does the and  escape sequence do?

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Please find list of Bash Escape Sequences:

                   an ASCII bell character (07)
              d     the date in "Weekday Month Date" format
                     (e.g., "Tue May 26")
              e     an ASCII escape character (033)
              h     the hostname up to the first `.'
              H     the hostname
              j     the number of jobs currently managed by the
                     shell
              l     the basename of the shell's terminal device
                     name
                   newline
                   carriage return
              s     the name of the shell, the basename of $0
                     (the portion following the final slash)
                   the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format
              T     the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format
              @     the current time in 12-hour am/pm format
              u     the username of the current user
                   the version of bash (e.g., 2.00)
              V     the release of bash, version + patchlevel
                     (e.g., 2.00.0)
              w     the current working directory
              W     the basename of the current working direc­
                     tory
              !     the history number of this command
              #     the command number of this command
              $     if the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a
                     $
              nn   the character corresponding to the octal
                     number nnn
              \     a backslash
              [     begin a sequence of non-printing characters,
                     which could be used to embed a terminal con­
                     trol sequence into the prompt
              ]     end a sequence of non-printing characters

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