cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: [ast-users] [ksh93] Line continuation problem in interactive shell -------- > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Clark WANG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > See following example: > > > > $ echo ${.sh.version} > > Version JMP 93u+ 2012-06-06 > > $ echo abc\ <== This is fine. > > > def > > abcdef > > $ echo "abc\ > > > def" <== It still waits for input after pressing ENTER. > > > > > > > 93v- 2013-02-13 still has this problem. >
I don't understand the problem. Inside "", \<newline> is special and means line continuation. This is defined in the last paragraph of section 2.2.3 of the posix standard. David Korn [email protected] _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
