I am writing an installation script that will be run as `/bin/sh`.

There is a line prompting for a file:

```
read -p "goat may try to change directory if cd fails to do so. Would you like to add this feature? [Y|n] " REPLY

```

I would like to break this long line into many lines so that none of them exceed 80 characters. I'm talking about **the lines within the source code** of the script; *not* about the lines that are to be actually printed on the screen when the script is executed!

What I've tried:

* Frist approach:

```
read -p "oat may try to change directory if cd fails to do so. " \
    "Would you like to add this feature? [Y|n] " REPLY

```

This doesn't work since it doesn't print `Would you like to add this feature? [Y|n]`.
* Second approach:

```
echo "oat may try to change directory if cd fails to do so. " \
    "Would you like to add this feature? [Y|n] "
read REPLY

```

Doesn't work as well. It prints a newline after the prompt. Adding `-n` option to `echo` doesn't help: it just prints:

```
-n goat oat may try to change directory if cd fails to do so. Would you like to add this feature? [Y|n]
# empty line here

```
* ### My current workaround is

```
printf '%s %s ' \
    "oat may try to change directory if cd fails to do so." \
    "Would you like to add this feature? [Y|n] "
read REPLY

```

### and I wonder if there is a better way.

Remember that I am looking for a `/bin/sh` compatible solution.