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Re: line continuation with sed



On Fri, Oct 14, 2022, at 11:44 AM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> All this to accommodate 
> servants of the Evil One who would end a filename with a space!

Don't fixate on filenames ending in spaces.  The standard behavior
of backslash is to escape the following character, whatever it is,
with the exception of LF.  Having \ SP behave differently depending
on whether it is at the end of a line or not would be ridiculous.

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