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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Another sed question.
Message-ID: <2702@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 9 Dec 89 19:09:29 GMT
References: <37091@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <1989Dec2.134348.22524@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Because the programmer wanted to do it that way.  Lots of echos would have
>been ugly,

And unnecessary.  In the Bourne shell, you can do

	echo 'Now is the time for all good parties
	to come to the aid of man.'

and you can do it in the C shell if you put backslashes at the end of
all but the last line:

	echo 'Now is the time for all good parties\
	to come to the aid of man.'