On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:18 PM, John Kearney <dethrop...@web.de> wrote: > Oh and FYI > IFS=: read > may change the global IFS on some shells I think. > Mainly thinking of pdksh right now.
it seems ok on this netbsd machine: PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 IFS=f read </dev/null;printf %s "$IFS" | sed -n l \t\n$