I notice "\" being added to the end of some of the lines in a shell script. I am new to working with shell scripts and googling did not give me anything from which I could understand what it does. Please let me know what this does.
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Search for the phrase "line continuation" – Charles Duffy Nov 20 '20 at 21:44
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it's a line continuation character. you want a new line for readability but you don't want the code to be parsed that way – Chris_Rands Nov 20 '20 at 21:45