title: Multiline assignment in bash
body: <p>In .cmd files on windows I do:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SET JARS=^
  ./lib/apache-mime4j-0.6.jar;^
  ./lib/apache-mime4j-0.6.jar;^
  ./lib/bsh-1.3.0.jar;^
  ./lib/cglib-nodep-2.1_3.jar;^
  ./lib/commons-codec-1.6.jar;^
  ./lib/commons-collections-3.2.1.jar;^
  ./lib/commons-exec-1.1.jar;^
  ./lib/commons-io-2.0.1.jar;^
  ./lib/commons-io-2.3.jar;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I do such multiline assignment in shell?</p>