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On 2000年1月18日, you wrote: > Why does the cli keep going to a > > > prompt in bash whenever I accidentally hit \ then enter? > man bash > / \ > gets me > _Invalid pattern (press RETURN) > no help for the gipper... > > V > Because it's a continuation keythingy. It allows you to continue a command after typing enter (like c): [me@myplace /usr]$ ls -laRt | \ > grep "Jan" |\ > sed -e\ > '/^-d/d' 1>&2 >\ > foo What something like that would look like in a single command is: [me@myplace /usr]$ ls -laRt | grep "Jan" | sed -e '/^-d/d' 1>&2 > foo ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug