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diff --git a/Src/hist.c b/Src/hist.c
index 1c626fd76..0eeb98fb0 100644
--- a/Src/hist.c
+++ b/Src/hist.c
@@ -2358,8 +2358,18 @@ readhistfile(char *fn, int err, int readflags)
incnode(wordnode)) {
char *word = getdata(wordnode);
- while (inblank(*pt))
- pt++;
+ for (;;) {
+ /*
+ * Not really an oddity: "\\\n" is
+ * removed from input as if whitespace.
+ */
+ if (inblank(*pt))
+ pt++;
+ else if (strpfx("\\\n", pt))
+ pt += 2;
+ else
+ break;
+ }
if (!strpfx(word, pt)) {
int bad = 0;
/*