script issue

[Jorge Fábregas]

On Friday 07 January 2005 1:00 pm, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> 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?

Use the backslash, like this:

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#! /bin/sh
echo "This is \
a line"

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Jorge