Hi Tomas, in my case it is the config freom from bootcdwrite, which is bootcdwrite.conf.
The parm is NOT_TO_CD and as there are many and partly long pathnames, the line has increased rather long. So I want to shorten it. But as it was said: there is no general way for this. So I just try some things out for this, and the next time again. Thought I have something missed, but does not look so. Thanks for all the help, I think this case caqn be closed. I will wait for one or two days and then mark this case as closed. Cheers Hans > As Nicolas George says, "config-file" is too generic a term. > If the above is a variable assignment, then you can escape the > newlines with a backslash, like so > > Do_not_write="path1/subfolder \ > path1/subfolder2 \ > ..." > > Note that the backslash has to be the last character in the > line. No extra whitespace after that (this is somewhat > fragile). I prefer to put such things in here docs: > > read -d '' Do_not_write <<"__END" > this > that > the other > __END > > echo "Do_not_write" > => > this > that > the other > > Put attention to the quotes. In bash, type "help read" to learn > about the options (it is a builtin, it has to). > > Cheers
