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What is the importance of environment variable PS2?

  1. Its gets displayed when a command continues to next line.

  2. It is reserved for root user

  3. It is used for defining the default character used to commenting a line for a particular shell.

  4. None of these
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Explanation

PS2 is the secondary prompt shown when a command spans multiple lines, indicating continuation. It is not reserved for root nor related to comment characters, making the stored answer correct.

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