On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:38:46PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > > > Your unquoted $instring is being split into fields by bash, which is > > operating with IFS=: at that point. > > Variable assignments are supposed to be performed _after_ redirections > (read is not a special built-in).
Do you mean variable expansions? I'm willing to concede that there may be a bug here, but your explanation is confusing to me. Here's the code in question, simplified even further: imadev:~$ unset IFS imadev:~$ foo=a/b/c imadev:~$ cat < <(echo $foo) a/b/c imadev:~$ IFS=/ cat < <(echo $foo) a b c Clearly the IFS assignment is affecting the expansion of $foo inside the process substitution. This has nothing to do with read. By the way, I get the same result in both 4.3.0-alpha and 1.14.7 (except that I can't unset IFS in 1.14.7).
