title: How do I enter a new line/move to the next line without executing command while in a shell or bash if the command has more than 1 line?
body: <p>so i'm trying to follow a tutorial on creating an Azure VM and the entire tutorial is from the CLI. It is specifically using bash. I know next to nothing about using CLI so it is pretty intimdating. Anyways all the commands look like this in the tutorial:</p>
  
  <pre><code>az vm create \
    --resource-group myResourceGroup \
    --name myVM \
    --image UbuntuLTS \
    --admin-username azureuser \
    --generate-ssh-keys
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I try to make a new line and go to that new line to enter in the argument/parameter it keeps trying to execute the command and i cant execute anything since obviously what im typing in is missing parameters:</p>
  
  <pre><code>az vm create \ --resource-group ShahVMAzureUB \ --name ShahVM \ --imageUbuntuLTS \ --admin-username shahjacob \ --generate-ssh-keysaz vm create
  : error: the following arguments are required: --name/-n, --resource-group/-g
  </code></pre>