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5.2 Long Crontab Lines

Very long crontab lines can be split across several physical lines using the familiar backslash continuation technique: a backslash appearing immediately before the ending newline character is removed along with the newline and the content of the next line is appended in its place. Multiple line continuations are allowed, as long as total line length does not exceed 1024 characters.