GURU NEEDED : break a command into several lines and comment each line

[David W. Hodgins]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:18:31 -0500, bolega <gnuist006 at gmail.com> wrote:

> how to break a command with several switches into more than one line
> AND to be able to put some comment on each line.
> command       \ # comment1
>          -sw1 \ # comment2

Not what you want to hear, but that will not work.  With the above,
the backslash is being used to escape the following space, rather
then a newline, as is required to continue the line.  Even if it
were to work that way, would the next line be considered a continuation
of the command, or of the comment?

Your stuck with

command       \
          -sw1
# comment1
# comment2

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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