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July 01, 2008 12:00 AM

Q. What is the cmd.exe line-continuation character?

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A. The caret (^) symbol is the cmd.exe line-continuation character that allows you to continue a command on multiple lines, as the following example shows:
Users\john>echo ^
More? hello world

The output would be

hello world

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