[GRASS-dev] Python script test

[Glynn Clements]

Michael Barton wrote:

> I just found out that .profile (and I suppose other shell  
> configuration scripts) won't recognize backslashes as a line  
> continuation in PATH or PYTHONPATH statements.

Are you quoting the value? Within single quotes, all characters are
treated literally, including backslash and newline characters. Other
than that, backslash-newline is always discarded.

Also, ensure that you don't have CRLF line terminators. CR is treated
as whitespace, and trailing whitespace is normally harmless, but
backslash-newline is only recognised if the newline immediately
follows the backslash, without any intervening whitespace.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>