printf in bash

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Neil Watson wrote:

> In Perl I can use print like this:
>
> print <<"*END*";
> This is line one
> This is line two with quotations ""
> *END*
>
> Is there an equivalent in bash?

    See "Here Documents" in the man page:

cat <<EOF
This is line one
This is line two with quotations ""
EOF

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