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Re: Clarify cases of implicit and explicit line continuation

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  Re: Clarify cases of implicit and explicit line continuation Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com> - 2018-06-05 07:50 +0530

#14220 — Re: Clarify cases of implicit and explicit line continuation

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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