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I am following this command on the readme file in github to copy a file but I don't understand how to type it in the terminal it has this backslash and terminal is spitting back that I am not using the copy command correctly

cp -r rails_tutorial_sublime_text/* \
        ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages/User/

What do I actually type into terminal in this instance?

mhatch
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A backslash followed by a newline character means the command continues to the next line. You could remove the backslash and type all of that on the same line if you wanted to.

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