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 -- A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good. Proverbs 16:29 GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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