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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (May 30), Aiza said:
> In a .sh type script I have && exerr " very long message gt 250 char" 
> all on the same line. This is a real pain to edit.
> 
> Is there some code a can use to continue this on the next line so I can 
> see it on the screen and still have the command function? I tried \ with 
> no luck.

\ should work just fine:

$ echo "long line \
split onto two"
long line split onto two
$

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