Direct line continuations
With a vertical slash/pipe character (|
) you declare a direct line continuation, whatever you write on that line
is also appened to the previous field, but directly and without any spacing inbetween:
A URL poem: https://roses.are.red/?violets=are-blue&
| whitespace=does-not-matter
Final remark: spaced and direct line continuations can be mixed in any fashion:
command: hashify -i this-is-very-long-i-dont-even-know-when-this-key-is-
| going-to-end-therefore-i-am-happy-about-the-existence-
| of-direct-line-continuations
\ -o output.hashed
\ --verbose
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