Paul Eggert wrote: > > the GNU > > standards favour listing the operators at the beginning of a line, not > > at the end. > > For shell scripts it's routine to put operators at the end; this avoids > unnecessary backslashes.
The backslashes at the end of a line are only a minor annoyance. Not being able to grasp the structure of a set of commands and pipes quickly — by looking at only the start of each line — is a major annoyance. Bruno
