我听到这个答案，但也想把它输送到另一个命令。给出的答案是正确的，但如果有人想要管道它，您需要在像这样的多行字符串之前管道它

echo | tee /tmp/pipetest << EndOfMessage
This is line 1.
This is line 2.
Line 3.
EndOfMessage

这将允许您拥有多行字符串，但也可以将其放在后续命令的stdin中。

下面是我喜欢的方式来分配一个多行字符串的变量(我认为它看起来不错)。

read -r -d '' my_variable << \
_______________________________________________________________________________

String1
String2
String3
...
StringN
_______________________________________________________________________________

在这两种情况下，下划线的数量是相同的(这里是80)。

在bash脚本中，以下工作:

#!/bin/sh

text="this is line one\nthis is line two\nthis is line three"
echo -e $text > filename

另外:

text="this is line one
this is line two
this is line three"
echo "$text" > filename

Cat文件名给出:

this is line one
this is line two
this is line three

或者用空格保持文本缩进:

#!/bin/sh

sed 's/^[[:blank:]]*//' >filename <<EOF
    this is line one
    this is line two
    this is line three
EOF

相同但使用变量:

#!/bin/sh

text="$(sed 's/^[[:blank:]]*//' << whatever
    this is line one
    this is line two
    this is line three
)"

echo "$text" > filename

;-)

Echo在传递给它的参数之间添加空格。$text受变量扩展和单词分割的影响，所以你的echo命令相当于:

echo -e "this" "is" "line" "one\n" "this" "is" "line" "two\n"  ...

你可以看到在“this”之前加了一个空格。你可以删除换行符，并引用$text来保留换行符:

text="this is line one
this is line two
this is line three"

echo "$text" > filename

或者你可以使用printf，它比echo更健壮和可移植:

printf "%s\n" "this is line one" "this is line two" "this is line three" > filename

在支持大括号展开的bash中，你甚至可以这样做:

printf "%s\n" "this is line "{one,two,three} > filename

这里只提一个简单的单行连接，因为它有时很有用。

# for bash

v=" guga "$'\n'"   puga "

# Just for an example.
v2="bar "$'\n'"   foo "$'\n'"$v"

# Let's simplify the previous version of $v2.
n=$'\n'
v3="bar ${n}   foo ${n}$v"

echo "$v3" 

你会得到这样的结果

bar 
   foo 
 guga 
   puga 

所有前导和结尾空格将被保留

echo "$v3" > filename