Filename With Special Characters like "$" Generates SP2-332 Spooling It Or SP2-310 "Unable To Open File" (Doc ID 761384.1)

SQL*Plus 10g rel2 or 11g in Unix/Linux displays an error trying to create or read a file that includes a special character like the dollar sign in the name, ie, test$.lst

-- Steps To Reproduce:

SQL> spool test$.lst
SP2-0332: Cannot create spool file.

Or

SQL>start /tmp/test$.lst
SP2-0310: unable to open file "/tmp/test$.lst"

-- What is working:

Scripts with similar names work on MS Windows platform.

Cause

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