IntroToLinux

6. Line Continuation and Escaping

Backslash (): Line Continuation

# Break long commands across lines
command1 \
    --option1 value1 \
    --option2 value2 \
    --option3 value3

# Real example
find /home \
    -name "*.txt" \
    -type f \
    -exec grep -l "pattern" {} \;

# With pipes
cat file.txt | \
    grep "pattern" | \
    sort | \
    uniq -c | \
    sort -nr

Escape Characters:

# Escape special characters
echo "The price is \$10"
echo "Path: C:\\Users\\Admin"
echo "Quote: \"Hello World\""

# Escape in file names
touch file\ with\ spaces.txt
ls file\ with\ spaces.txt

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