Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > Your unquoted $instring is being split into fields by bash, which is > operating with IFS=: at that point.
Variable assignments are supposed to be performed _after_ redirections (read is not a special built-in). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."