{"id":5451,"date":"2015-06-19T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/06\/19\/powertip-line-continuation-in-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:47:22","slug":"powertip-line-continuation-in-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-line-continuation-in-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Line Continuation in PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Ensure a line continuation in Windows PowerShell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;What the line continuation character should use to ensure my Windows PowerShell code <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;continues to the next line?<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;The line continuation character in Windows PowerShell is the backtick. <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Type a &lt;space&gt;, the backtick, and then press ENTER, for example:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin-left:150px\">Get-Process -Name `<br \/> &quot;Powershell_ISE&quot; <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Ensure a line continuation in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;What the line continuation character should use to ensure my Windows PowerShell code &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;continues to the next line? &nbsp;The line continuation character in Windows PowerShell is the backtick. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Type a &lt;space&gt;, the backtick, and then press ENTER, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-getting-started","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Ensure a line continuation in Windows PowerShell. &nbsp;What the line continuation character should use to ensure my Windows PowerShell code &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;continues to the next line? &nbsp;The line continuation character in Windows PowerShell is the backtick. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Type a &lt;space&gt;, the backtick, and then press ENTER, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}