Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
16 Mar 2000 19:16:48 +0100:
In fact if someone has broken IFS, typically lacking nl, then the
sanity check from Automake will fail, telling the there is a severe
clock skew, while it's only the
set X `ls -Lt $srcdir/configure conftestfile 2> /dev/null`
which is improperly split (ls will answer separating with nl, not
spaces).
FreeBSD sh says that
* Expands to the positional parameters, starting from one. When
the expansion occurs within a double-quoted string it expands to
a single field with the value of each parameter separated by the
first character of the IFS variable, or by a <space> if IFS is
unset.
So with IFS=<nl><space><tab> we get the behaviour you mention.
I haven't followed this thread very closely, so forgive me if this is
a silly question but is the order crucial? Couldn't we have
IFS=<space><tab><nl> instead?
--linus
