How to specify a multi-line shell variable?

Question

I have written a query:

function print_ui_hosts
{
local sql = \"select .........\"
print_sql \"$ sql\"
}

local sql - a very long string. Qu

Answer 1

Use read with a heredoc as shown below:

read -d '' sql << EOF
select c1, c2 from foo
where c1='something'
EOF

echo "$sql"