On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:22:16PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Is it possible to spread a sed command over multiple lines, to improve > readability (for the sake of future maintenance)? If so, what > character is used to break the line and what are the rules? > > For example, I would like to re-write the command: > > sed -e 's/\.//g' -e 's/\,//g' -e 's/\\//g' "$1" | sort -u > foo > > as: > > sed -e 's/\.//g' > -e 's/\,//g' > -e 's/\\//g' "$1" > | sort -u > foo use the escape character '\' before the carriage return on the lines and I think it should work. sed -e 's/\.//g' \ -e 's/\,//g' \ -e 's/\\//g' "$1" \ | sort -u > foo the \ escapes the return making the command appear as one line to bash. make sure there are no other characters *after* the \ A
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