Re: Clarify cases of implicit and explicit line continuation

From	Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Clarify cases of implicit and explicit line continuation
Date	2018-06-05 07:50 +0530
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On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> The general rule is simple: bash reads input a line at a time, feeding
> each line to the parser, until it has enough input for a complete
> command. If it doesn't have enough to complete a command, it will read
> additional lines. If a newline would complete a command, you need to
> quote it to prevent it being interpreted as such.

Yes that is all understood. All I'm requesting for is for this
behaviour to be *documented* in the manpage.

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Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा 𑀰𑁆𑀭𑀻𑀭𑀫𑀡𑀰𑀭𑁆𑀫𑀸

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