On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > O know in shell scripts it is possible, to seperate a looong line of commands > into several short lines. > > But can this be done in config-files, too? > > I have a files with the syntax like this: > > Do_not_write="/path1/subfolder /path1/subfolder2 ... /pathX/subfolderX" As Nicolas George says, "config-file" is too generic a term. If the above is a variable assignment, then you can escape the newlines with a backslash, like so Do_not_write="path1/subfolder \ path1/subfolder2 \ ..." Note that the backslash has to be the last character in the line. No extra whitespace after that (this is somewhat fragile). I prefer to put such things in here docs: read -d '' Do_not_write <<"__END" this that the other __END echo "Do_not_write" => this that the other Put attention to the quotes. In bash, type "help read" to learn about the options (it is a builtin, it has to). Cheers -- t
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