On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:08:53PM -0600, Max Kipness wrote:
> Based on what was just said above, I am using Bash version 2.05b.0(1),
> and no extra configs for splitting are necessary as it splits
> appropriately at the end of the line.
No, bash splits on all whitespace by default. Take a file like this:
one two three
four five six
seven eight nine
put it in a var:
foo=`cat file`
and then expand it:
echo $foo
This echo command gets 9 separate args. If you use this:
echo "$foo"
This echo command gets just 1 arg (with spaces and newlines included).
However, if you set IFS to contain just a newline, then the unquoted
$foo reference returns 3 args. So, that's one possible bash solution.
..wayne..
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