abcde yo hot damn what a fabulous window treatment double"quote onetwothree first second third f1 () { cat <<< "abcde"; cat <<< "yo"; cat <<< "$a $b"; cat <<< 'what a fabulous window treatment'; cat <<< 'double"quote' } f2 () { cat <<< onetwothree } f3 () { cat <<< "$@" } echo $(echo hi) echo ho echo off to work we go declare -a uu='([0]="" [1]="kghfjk" [2]="jkfzuk" [3]="i ")'