23 May
2004
23 May
'04
08:06
On Saturday 22 May 2004 21:42, Robert Paulsen wrote:
If you put a backslash as the last character on a line it "protects" the enter key from the shell so the shell thinks there is still more to come for the command you have typed (as if you hadn't hit enter yet). It (the backslash) is effectively a continuation character when it is the last character on a line.
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