这是Dennis方法的变化，在脚本中看起来更优雅。

函数定义:

define(){ IFS='\n' read -r -d '' ${1} || true; }

用法:

define VAR <<'EOF'
abc'asdf"
$(dont-execute-this)
foo"bar"''
EOF

echo "$VAR"

享受

附注:为不支持read -d的shell创建了一个“read循环”版本。应该适用于set -eu和未配对的反引号，但测试不太好:

define(){ o=; while IFS="\n" read -r a; do o="$o$a"'
'; done; eval "$1=\$o"; }

仍然没有保留换行符的解决方案。

这不是真的——你可能只是被echo的行为误导了:

返回$VAR #换行符

echo "$VAR" #保留换行符

将heredoc值赋给变量

VAR="$(cat <<'VAREOF'
abc'asdf"
$(dont-execute-this)
foo"bar"''
VAREOF
)"

用作命令的参数

echo "$(cat <<'SQLEOF'
xxx''xxx'xxx'xx  123123    123123
abc'asdf"
$(dont-execute-this)
foo"bar"''
SQLEOF
)"

$TEST="ok"
read MYTEXT <<EOT
this bash trick
should preserve
newlines $TEST
long live perl
EOT
echo -e $MYTEXT

数组是一个变量，所以在这种情况下mapfile可以工作

mapfile y <<'z'
abc'asdf"
$(dont-execute-this)
foo"bar"''
z

然后你可以像这样打印

printf %s "${y[@]}"

感谢dimo414的回答，这展示了他的伟大解决方案是如何工作的，并表明你可以在文本中轻松地使用引号和变量:

示例输出

$ ./test.sh

The text from the example function is:
  Welcome dev: Would you "like" to know how many 'files' there are in /tmp?

  There are "      38" files in /tmp, according to the "wc" command

test.sh

#!/bin/bash

function text1()
{
  COUNT=$(\ls /tmp | wc -l)
cat <<EOF

  $1 Would you "like" to know how many 'files' there are in /tmp?

  There are "$COUNT" files in /tmp, according to the "wc" command

EOF
}

function main()
{
  OUT=$(text1 "Welcome dev:")
  echo "The text from the example function is: $OUT"
}

main