Special Characters

selang supports the following special characters:
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selang supports the following special characters:
Character
Description
Meaning
# or *
Pound (hash) or asterisk
At the beginning of a line, indicates that the line is a comment; the line is not executed. Comment lines are useful when inputting the selang commands from a file.
!
Exclamation mark
At the beginning of the line, indicates that the rest of the line is a shell command. selang sends the command to the operating system shell program for execution; 
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does not execute the line.
\
Backslash
As the last character of a line, indicates the command continues on the following line.
;
Semicolon
Terminates a command and introduces a new command on the same line.
|
Pipe
Sends the output of the preceding command to the input of the succeeding command (the specified
pipe
).