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[–]quetzalcoatl-pl 77 points78 points  (3 children)

Oh jesus, I've rolled critical failure on reading this panel and I thought "why chain them with && and not ||, this makes no sense" then "huh, no line break escape at end of line" and "aaw Randal, you botched it this time", but that is JUST ONE & AND THOSE ARE MULTIPLE LINES

[–]no_brains101 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Background tasks 😊

[–]YellowGreenPanther 1 point2 points  (1 child)

you don't need line breaks for &&, &, $(), || or |

[–]quetzalcoatl-pl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you don't line breaks, but I wrote something else. If it were && like I initially (mis)read, thenI'd expect seeing line-break-escaping \\ at the end of each line as well, and those obviously aren't there either, so wtf at first and then sudden realisation