How to force a linebreak inside a <command> tag?

Does anyone know if this is possible, and how to do it?
I'm writing computer software doc and some of the commands are quite 
long (> length of 1 line) and I'd like to use a backslash and continue 
the command on the next line.

Failing that, can anyone recommend an alternative approach? This would 
also be useful when I want to list several consecutive commands, but 
don't want to break them up with <para> tags.

cheers

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David O'Brien
IPA Content Author
Red Hat Asia Pacific

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