I'm a relative newbie to PERL and I am trying to figure out how to handle this simple task.

I have a text file with a capture of commands associated with a software build.

e:\green\prelink.exe -X4 -c "e:\green\gnm.exe  -c++" -Le:\green\ppc403
+ \
        obj\hello.o obj\shop.o obj\catalog.o obj\scan.o obj\strings.o 
+\
        obj\itemlist.o -- -lscnoe
e:\green\decode.exe < C:\DOCUME~1\BUILD~1.ELE\LOCALS~1\Temp\ghjs1.ler
rm -f C:\DOCUME~1\BUILD~1.ELE\LOCALS~1\Temp\ghjs1.ler
e:\green\gnm.exe -s catalog > C:\DOCUME~1\BUILD~1.ELE\LOCALS~1\Temp\gh
+js2.nm
e:\green\dblink.exe -dbopath=obj -nm=gnm \
        C:\DOCUME~1\BUILD~1.ELE\LOCALS~1\Temp\ghjs2.nm -o catalog.dnm 
+\
        e:\green\ppc403\crt0.dbo e:\green\ppc403\libmulti.dba \
        e:\green\ppc403\libscnoe.dba e:\green\ppc403\libsedgnoe.dba \
        e:\green\ppc403\libdbmem.dba e:\green\ppc403\libansi.dba \
        e:\green\ppc403\libind.dba e:\green\ppc403\libsys.dba \
        e:\green\ppc403\libarch.dba
rm -f C:\DOCUME~1\BUILD~1.ELE\LOCALS~1\Temp\ghjs2.nm

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These are all command lines for a build. I need to separate each command line (which extends over multiple lines with the " \" at the end until there is one without that), count them, and then put them into a makefile so they can be executed with gmake.

Any ideas how I should approach this?

In reply to Breaking up a text file to make a Makefile by flybd5

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