Question

In Bash (or other shells) how can I print an environment variable which has a multi-line value?

text='line1
line2'

I know a simple usual echo $text won’t work out of the box.
Would some $IFS tweak help?

My current workaround is something like ruby -e 'print ENV["text"]'.
Can this be done in pure shell? I was wondering if env command would take an unresolved var name but it does not seem to.

Answer 1

Same solution as always.

echo "$text"