Once, long ago--actually, on Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 02:18:16PM CDT--Mike Wright
(mike.wri...@mailinator.com) said:
> exactly what I needed. I'd never discovered IFS before
As you've discovered, it's quite useful to manipulate IFS. Just a
suggestion, however. In scripts where you modify IFS, do something like:
IFSAVE=$IFS;
...do stuff...
IFS=$IFSAVE
Depending on what you're doing to/with IFS, it can lead to confusion with
other commands if it's not as expected.
Cheers,
--
Dave Ihnat
dih...@dminet.com
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