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Multiline Embedded Bash Variables
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multiline-variables.sh
#!/bin/bash
# This is terribly annoying to remember, but here's how you do multiline
# variables in Bash.
read -d '' suchvariable <<EOF
usage: do this thing
preserves linebreak
wow such things
newlines galore
EOF
echo -e "$suchvariable"
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