Eric Blake wrote:
>> Anyhow I see that bash has taken the liberty of changing
>> the traditional acronym expansion from "Input Field Separator" to
>> "Internal Field Separator". A subtle difference.
>
> OK, you found a legitimate bug in the bash documentation. Perhaps Chet
> will change that for the next release.
I doubt it. IFS isn't an `input' field separator in the awk sense.
Bash is not alone in using the `Internal' adjective; the man pages for
the Bourne shell from v7 to SVR4.2, ksh, and zsh do so as well.
Chet
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