Mihai Barbos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When IFS is "\n" a single n at the end of a line is dropped.
IFS="\n" is equivalent to IFS=n If you want to set IFS to a single newline character use either IFS=$'\n' or IFS=" " Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash