How to preserve line breaks when storing command output to a variable?

Question

I’m using bash shell on Linux. I have this simple script …

#!/bin/bash

TEMP=`sed -n \'/\'\"Starting deployment of\"\'/,/\'\"Failed to start context\"\'/p\'         


        

Answer 1

I have ran into the same problem, a quote will help

ubuntu@host:~/apps$ apps="abc
> def"
ubuntu@host:~/apps$ echo $apps
abc def
ubuntu@host:~/apps$ echo "$apps"
abc
def