On 10-07-2024 04:12AM, Bengt Gördén wrote:
On 2024-10-07 04:09, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
What is \ above for above? How to look up a man-page for \ what's it under?
Since we are using a shell, you should look up _your_ shell. Probably bash.
man bash
"A non‐quoted backslash (\) is the escape character. It preserves the literal value of the next character that follows, with the exception of <newline>. If a \<newline> pair appears, and the backslash is not itself quoted, the \<newline> is treated as a line continuation (that is, it is removed from the input stream and effectively ignored)."
PS. A bit of caution here. Treading into the realm of line breakers and how to interpret them will keep you up at night for the foreseeable future. It is a Sisyphus task.
Good of you to share and respond. I saw Carlos' example > mkfs.f2fs -l WORLDWIDE-FSF2 -i -f -O \ extra_attr,inode_checksum,sb_checksum /dev/mapper/cr_name Command differs from Arch Wiki Page example of mkfs.f2fs -l mylabel -i -O extra_attr,inode_checksum,sb_checksum /dev/sdxY in reference to the \ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/F2FS With FSF2 a, '-f' flag..is that the correct term? Seems to be also necessary, Arch Wiki do not show that in the example. And was curious about the '\' now I see it's a bash and not a F2FS filesystem flag. Why is it helpful/important "to preserve the literal value of the next character that follows in this case? Thanks🙂