-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20/04/09 09:27, Sean Miller wrote: > pipe is | not \ > > \ is the way you make a character literal. In other words you remove > it from the parsing and have it interpreted as the character it is. > > Like "I'm going slightly \"mad\""... ;-)
And \ at the end of a line means that the next line will be interpreted as though it had been on the same line. E.g. ./someCommand \ "params to pass to someCommand" This is often seen in guides on the Internet where the content might get wrapped on the screen and the author wants to make sure it will run fine when you copy and paste it. - -- Stephen O'Neill w: http://www.thefloatingfrog.co.uk/ e: [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknsNBcACgkQJ+Auntu1v4SuFgCfWFyxPpTdBxAyE1rkkwnMMdc4 B6kAn0J9iaMCdEr+miU31fAKDS5hxj93 =qOfB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
