On Friday 07 January 2005 1:00 pm, Chadley Wilson wrote: > if a line is too long in a sh script > I need to break it in to two lines, > there is a method that tells the shell that the two line are to read as > one, > > how do you do that? Use the backslash, like this: -----------------------cut here ----------------------- #! /bin/sh echo "This is \ a line" ---------------------cut here --------------------- Jorge