I am trying to replace a word with a text which spans multiple lines. I know that I can simply use the newline character \n to solve this problem, but I want to keep the string "clean" of any unwanted formatting.
The below example obviously does not work:
read -r -d '' TEST <<EOI
a
b
c
EOI
sed -e "s/TOREPLACE/${TEST}/" file.txt
Any ideas of how to achieve this WITHOUT modifying the part which starts with read and ends with EOI?