Q. What is the Windows PowerShell line-continuation character?

John Savill

June 29, 2008

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A. The back-tick (`) symbol is the PowerShell line-continuation character that allows you to continue a command on multiple lines, as the following example shows:

PS D:temp> write-host `

>> hello

The output would be

>> hello 

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