How to tell bash that the line continues on the next line

Question

In a bash script I got from another programmer, some lines exceeded 80 columns in length. What is the character or thing to be added to the line in order to indicate that the line continues on the next line?

Answer 1

The character is a backslash

From the bash manual:

The backslash character ‘’ may be used to remove any special meaning for the next character read and for line continuation.