LS gets confused as soon as the IFS environment variable only contains control characters.
# IFS contains an NL only: > bash > IFS=$(echo -e "\n") > ls /bin/ls: Ungültige Option -- „/bin/ls --help“ gibt weitere Informationen. # IFS contains TAB,NL and SPACE: > IFS=$(echo -e " \t\n") > ls -1 bin boot dev ... Strange! There is also nothing about IFS in the man or info pages of "ls". Why has IFS an influence on "ls" at all? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
