I like to execute commands with backticks - it is short, and tidy, and can capture return text. Problem occures when the command has too many parameters and I decide to split it at multiple lines. In bash-like shells you can do that with adding the "\" sign at the end of the line and continue on the next line. However the backticks don't like that and they think every line is a separate command. Could that behavior be fixed in some way?