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Hi, I got a script that execute a command like this : et -A array_name `ps -ef | grep -i $process_name | grep -v 'grep' | grep -v 'kill' |grep -v $0| sort|awk '{print $2}' | sort -u` this is bloody long ... i vaguely remember that I could actually use a backslash "\" to "cut" this line into several lines without making the shell confuse that i wanna press "enter" every times there... Does any one know how to do this ? It would be greate, much appreciated. Please help if you could. Thank you very much

Name: David Perry
Date: October 15, 2002 at 06:31:32 Pacific

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et -A array_name \ `ps -ef | \ grep -i $process_name | \ grep -v 'grep' | \ grep -v 'kill' |\ grep -v $0 |\ sort | \ awk '{print $2}' | \ sort -u`

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thanks a lot David

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