walter harms wrote:
> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 16
> Release Status: release
>
> description:
>
> according to this paper: http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/shdiffs.html
>
> "If IFS is null, there is no separator, for example:
>
> $ IFS="
> $ set a b c
> $ echo "$*"
> abc
> "
>
> This does not work in ba/sh even when set -o posix is used there is also a
> testcase for that
> non-posix behaviour.
Which test are you talking about? Clearly bash-3.0 and bash-3.1 behave
as POSIX specifies:
$ cat x3
IFS=""
set a b c
echo "$*"
IFS=
set a b c
echo "$*"
z4.cns.cwru.edu(1)$ /bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i386-apple-darwin8.6.1)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ /bin/bash ./x3
abc
abc
$ ../bash-3.0-patched/bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.00.16(2)-release (i386-apple-darwin8.6.1)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
$ ../bash-3.0-patched/bash ./x3
abc
abc
Chet
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