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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash Script: Echo continuation across many lines Post 303013735 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 27th of February 2018 02:44:13 AM
Old 02-27-2018
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Having <backslash><space><newline> instead of <backslash><newline> does not give you a continuation line; it gives you an escaped <space> character on one line and your unrecognized command on the next line.
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