Re: [cygnus.egcs.patches] Patch for IFS

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 19, 2000, Felix Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> This assumes ASCII.  We've just removed the latest assumptions of
>> ASCII, so it wouldn't be wise to re-introduce them :-)

> oh.  hmm.  then how about using awk?
>   IFS=`awk 'BEGIN { printf " \t\n" }' /dev/null`

Did you know that shells do eat up trailing new-lines, and that's why
we can't do it this way? :-)

How about:

IFS=" "`echo; echo "    "`
                    ^^ this is a TAB

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