On Jul 21, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:
Michael Barton wrote:
I just found out that .profile (and I suppose other shell
configuration scripts) won't recognize backslashes as a line
continuation in PATH or PYTHONPATH statements.
Are you quoting the value? Within single quotes, all characters are
treated literally, including backslash and newline characters. Other
than that, backslash-newline is always discarded.
Also, ensure that you don't have CRLF line terminators. CR is treated
as whitespace, and trailing whitespace is normally harmless, but
backslash-newline is only recognised if the newline immediately
follows the backslash, without any intervening whitespace.
These are double quoted.
AFAICT, I just have CR's. Note that backslashes are fine in bash
scripts for other things. It's just a PATH that is giving me trouble.
It only reads up to the first backslash.
I'll check into it more.
Michael
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