How do I type on the next line in the Terminal?

salon_sue

I am using Ubuntu 12.10 and want to run a set of commands in the terminal, and from what i see in the instructions, these commands each start on a new line. I don't know how to do this in the terminal. I can't find what key to press to do the carriage-return to the next line.

Originally asked by Debbie Poole on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

As Web-E explains the most direct way to do what you want with two different commands, I thought I'd show that there are a number of ways to execute multiple commands or to continue commands onto another line without immediately executing them. Continuing long commands: 1) The most common way to construct one long command is to enter your commands, then use a backslash \ , press return, and then Bash will provide another prompt for you instead of executing the command. This secondary prompt is called PS2 and waits for your input: find /home/mike/Downloads -type f -iname '*.jpg' \ > You can keep on adding backslashes and pressing return as long as you want, as long as you think the overall...

Full answer by user76204: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/226219 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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