Reading file into variable, and losing line feeds

[Ray Parrish]

Hello,

I am interested in being able to read the contents of a text file into a 
variable, complete with line feeds.

Here is what I tried -

ray at RaysComputer:~/Bashscripts$ cat test.txt
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
ray at RaysComputer:~/Bashscripts$ FileContents=`cat test.txt`
ray at RaysComputer:~/Bashscripts$ echo $FileContents
Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Line 5
ray at RaysComputer:~/Bashscripts$

Is there some trick to preserving the line feeds in the variable?

Thanks for any help you can be, Ray Parrish

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