new line in heredoc disappearing in file

Question

I'm echoing a heredoc into a file, but the line breaks are being lost

Running this script

#!/bin/bash 

NAME="$1"

mkdir -p $NAME

FILE=$(cat <<SETVAR
name = "$NAME"
type = "test"
SETVAR
)

echo $FILE > $NAME/$NAME.txt

With the arg: foo, results in the file at foo/foo.txt containing

name = "foo" type = "test"

Any ideas? Thanks

Answer 1

Always use double quotes for variables that contain whitespace:

echo "$FILE" > ...