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How to tell bash that the line continues on the next line

Hi,

in a bash script I got from other programmer, some lines length exceeds 80 columnds or more. What is the character or thing to be added to the line in order to indicate that the line continues on the next line?

Thanks

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The character is a backslash \

Guillaume  2010-10-06 09:58:04
thanks. and what is the usual limit in columns of a bash script?
Werner  2010-10-06 10:06:08
bash has no interesting column limit; for clarity you should try to limit to 70-80 chars per column.
Habbie  2010-10-06 10:07:28

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