Re: line continuation with sed

[Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 08:44:08AM -0700, Ray Andrews wrote:
> mind, people who end a filename with a space aren't fit to live

Well, Unix allows any character in filenames excem null and slash.
I wouldn't have it any other way.  It's not the job of the
operating system to needlessly limit the character set.

> So then *only* 'backslash-newline' is a line continuation and
> any other variant leaves the backslash as an escape, yes?

Right.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt