On 2/26/18 9:57 AM, Clint Hepner wrote: > As you say, the intent is to use a particular value of the variable. The fact > that unsetting > IFS causes it to use a default value other than an empty string seems more > like a concession > to historical usage than a feature that should be explicitly used.
Since Posix explicitly requires it, you should be able to use it. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/