Join lines split with backslash at the end

$ sed -e ‘/\\$/{:0;N;s/\\\n//;t0}’

Joins each line that end with backslash (common way to mark line continuation in many languages) with the following one while removing the backslash.

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by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)

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