Block of Text to VAR 1

[jtanner]

Hello,

On a Sun Solaris systen from a Bourne shell script I have several static lines (35) of text that I need to store in a variable.

The hard way would be like:

VAR="Line 1"
VAR="$VAR Line2"
VAR="$VAR Line3"
...

Or perhaps outputting it into a file then into a variable.

I think what I am look for is to be able to take the text as an entire block but dont quite know the syntax.

Something like this (would this work - if coded right):

VAR <<
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3 ...
VAR

echo "$VAR"

Many thanks,

JT

 

[feherke]

Hi

Well, that works in Perl... But why not simply :

VAR="Line 1
Line 2
Line 3 ..."

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[jtanner]

feherke,

Your post was simple and perfect.

I guess I was making it too hard.

Thanks,

JT