When breaking a pipe into two lines, I find it cleaner to end the first line with pipe instead of backslash. Then I indent the second line. Bash knows a command

When breaking a pipe into two lines, I find it cleaner to end the first line with pipe instead of backslash. Then I indent the second line. Bash knows a command cannot end with pipe, therefore it's syntactically ok. E.g. cmd1 | cmd2 Instead of: cmd1 \ | cmd2