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Re: Strings vs Numbers (Re: Tying & Overloading)

From:
nick
Date:
May 9, 2001 13:29
Subject:
Re: Strings vs Numbers (Re: Tying & Overloading)
Message ID:
20010509202933.2781.31@dromedary.ni-s.u-net.com
Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be> writes:
>On 24 Apr 2001 00:29:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>>How do you concatenate together a list of variables that's longer than one
>>line without using super-long lines?  Going to the shell syntax of:
>>
>>    PATH=/some/long:/bunch/of:/stuff
>>    PATH="${PATH}:/more/stuff"
>>
>>would really be a shame.
>
>A backslash at the end of a line?
>
>Kidding!

Obviously you meant a '+' in column 6 of the continuation line ;-)

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