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Q. What is the cmd.exe line-continuation character?
John Savill
June 30, 2008
1 Min Read
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:
Usersjohn>echo ^More? hello worldThe output would be
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