History of 2019-12-07 Dollar-quoted strings in Bash

2019-12-07
10:06 UTC Revision 1 . . . . Marcin BorkowskiAs we all know, bash is a terrible but ubiquitous thing. Nowadays I usually avoid writing bash scripts as much as I can – but sometimes I really need to do something bash-y, for instance in the command line. One thing I encountered some time ago is putting newlines into bash strings, e.g. in parameters. My use case was that I wanted to make a Git commit from command line with a multiline commit message.