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Created February 28, 2024 10:15
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Neat way to define multiline variables in bash
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multiline.bash
#!/bin/bash
multiline() {
read -r -d '' "$@"
}
multiline text << 'END'
Hello, world!
Multiline docstrings seems to work today...
END
echo "$text"
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