Yes, there's a lot of different use for the back slash here. They all mean "escape" in different flavours.
First escapes my grep alias and runs normal grep
Then there is the slosh immediately before the newline, makes the line break but escapes the meaning as end-of-command to bash
Then in the awk command there is \t which is an "escape code" for a TAB
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Yes, there's a lot of different use for the back slash here. They all mean "escape" in different flavours.
First escapes my grep alias and runs normal grep
Then there is the slosh immediately before the newline, makes the line break but escapes the meaning as end-of-command to bash
Then in the awk command there is \t which is an "escape code" for a TAB