How to escape backslash bracket (\[) in Markdown?

Question

How does one escape the \"backslash square brackets\" \\[ \\] sequence in Markdown for GitHub? The sequence produces a

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Answer 1

There doesn't appear to be a way to do it. A workaround is to use a Gist to store such files (in my case a Bash script).

I will reassign to a better answer if someone comes up with a real solution.

Update: Use backticks to escape the escape char. See the new accepted answer.