script issue

Chadley Wilson chadley at pinteq.co.za
Fri Jan 7 17:43:38 UTC 2005


On Friday 07 January 2005 19:06, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > hi guys
> >
> > if a line is too long in a sh script
> > I need to break it in to two lines,
> > there is a method that tells the shell that the two line are to read as
> > one,
> >
> > how do you do that?
>
> echo This is a \
> 	long line.
>
> Note: the backslash must be the last character of the line, no spaces or
> anything else after it.
>
> Paul.
Thanks Paul
You are working rather hard today for me anyway?


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