On 5/2/16 3:06 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> When in a non-interactive shell, IFS, when modified as the control variable
> in a for loop does not change splitting behavior.
> $ bash -c 'for IFS in .; do printf "%s\n" "$IFS" "$*"; done' bash x x
> .
> x x
>
> $ bash -ic 'for IFS in .; do printf "%s\n" "$IFS" "$*"; done' bash x x
> .
> x.x
Thanks for the report; this is an easy fix. The fix will be in bash-4.4.
Chet
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