On 08/08/17 21:53, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17821277/how-to-separate-multiple-commands-passed-to-eval-in-bash Thanks for the tip, Ralf. I could get what I wanted with : eval ${a}_${b}="\"\ line1 line2\"" echo "$A_B" gives me : line1 line2 Thanks again