@@ -23,6 +23,19 @@ export function unquote(value: string) {
   let quote: "'" | '"' | undefined
   for (let index = 0; index < value.length; index++) {
     const char = value[index]
+    // Bash deletes `\<newline>` line continuations before execution (`ca\<newline>t`
+    // runs `cat`); single quotes keep the backslash, so exclude only those.
+    if (char === "\\" && quote !== "'") {
+      const next = value[index + 1]
+      if (next === "\n") {
+        index++
+        continue
+      }
+      if (next === "\r" && value[index + 2] === "\n") {
+        index += 2
+        continue
+      }
+    }
     if (quote) {
       if (char === quote) {
         quote = undefined
 
@@ -112,6 +112,13 @@ describe("Wildcard.unquote", () => {
     expect(Wildcard.matchStrict('"cat" notes.txt', "cat *")).toBe(true)
   })
 
+  test("deletes backslash-newline line continuations like bash", () => {
+    expect(Wildcard.unquote("ca\\\nt")).toBe("cat")
+    expect(Wildcard.unquote("\\\ncat")).toBe("cat")
+    expect(Wildcard.unquote('"a\\\nb"')).toBe("ab")
+    expect(Wildcard.unquote("'a\\\nb'")).toBe("a\\\nb")
+  })
+
   if (process.platform !== "win32") {
     test("unescapes backslash traversal as the shell would", () => {
       expect(Wildcard.unquote("..\\/etc")).toBe("../etc")