How to break a single command inside a `script` step on multiple lines

Question

We have a project using Azure Pipeline, relying on azure-pipelines.yml file at the repo\'s root.

When implementing a script step, it is possibl

Answer 1

At the moment, the only way we found for to break a single command on multiple line is using YAML folded style:

- script: >
    echo
    'hello world'

It is all about replacing | with >.

Notes:

• It is not possible to introduce extra indentation on the following lines! For example, trying to align all arguments given to a command would break the behaviour.
• This style will replace newlines in the provided value with a simple white space. This means the script now can only contain a single command (maybe adding literal \n at the end of the line would actually introduce a linebreak in the string, but it feels backward compared to the usual approach of automatice linebreak unless an explicit continuation is added).