Multiline shell commands do not work in CMD

[Taitava]

On Windows, if the shell is Command Prompt (CMD), and a shell command is split on multiple lines, only the first line is executed.

Example:

echo Multiline
echo CMD
echo command

Output:

Multiline

Newline

The newline character used by Obsidian is \n . I tried to replace \n with \r\n in shell command strings if the shell is CMD, but that did not change the behavior at all.

Possible solutions

• Convert newlines to &. It means to execute the next command regardless of if the previous command succeeded or not. I don't like this because it means I'd need to change the semantics of a user's command: a user has defined a multiline shell command, but my code would transform it into a single line shell command, concatenated with &. I don't even know all possible bad combinations of & when it's joined together with ends/starts of lines. E.g. if a line already ends with &, it would become && which is a different thing than what was originally meant.
• Invent better solutions?????