On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:03:47PM -0700, Jason Hough wrote:
| Just out of curiosity, what does the IFS= part do, and how necessary is it 
| here?

man bash

It is the Internal Field Separator list.  All characters in that
string are considered delimiters for the individual parts of a string
(used in 'for' loops, etc, because the shell is rather untyped).

-D

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