Hi, I was trying to understand the part of the documentation on word splitting. I realized that without some experiments:
https://gist.github.com/x-yuri/6c6b375e7b0721a323960baaedf2a649 I wasn't sure I understood it correctly. And one of the experiments revealed that: $ bash -c 'IFS=x; a=xa; f() { for arg; do echo "($arg)"; done; }; f $a' () (a) $ bash -c 'IFS=x; a=ax; f() { for arg; do echo "($arg)"; done; }; f $a' (a) $ bash --version GNU bash, version 5.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) I.e. IFS non-whitespaces are not stripped at the beginning of a word, but if there's one such non-whitespace at the end, it is stripped. This looks like a bug, unless I'm missing something. Regards, Yuri
