k.i.s.s.: too long command lines in bash etc

So for my porchfest work I was making up a thumbnail using ImageMagick, but there were so many files I was running into errors since it was bigger than whatever buffer bash was using. I thought I'd have to learn xargs or something fancy... But then I realized I could just make a bunch of short lines, each ending with a \\ and then a \n , and that copy and pasted fine.