Elmar Stellnberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LS gets confused as soon as the IFS environment variable only contains > control characters.
The ls program does not use the IFS environment variable in any way. > # IFS contains an NL only: >> bash >> IFS=$(echo -e "\n") >> ls > /bin/ls: Ungültige Option -- > „/bin/ls --help“ gibt weitere Informationen. Try running /bin/ls directly, you problably have a shell alias or function with the name `ls', which depends on proper word splitting. > Why has IFS an influence on "ls" at all? It hasn't. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
