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From: Michael Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Multiline Anonymous Literal Strings
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:57:31 -0400
To: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@cs.utk.edu>
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On Sep 28, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Anyone know of a way to compose a long literal string without doing
> something like this?
>
>    myvar="this is a really long string so long that I need to break"
>    myvar="$myvar up the assignment"
>
> In C, contiguous quoted strings are implicitly joined at a compile  
> time:
>
>    printf("This is a really long literal strong that will extend "
>           "beyond 80 characters.\n");
>
> In Perl and other languages, concatenation operators like ., &, and +
> are available.
>
> One application of this problem's

You can try:

foo="some text on this line \
more text here \
yet more here"

the \'s keep everything on one line, i.e. the newlines aren't part of  
the string.

Mike