On 10/12/19 9:02 AM, Mischa Baars wrote: > Hi, > > Perhaps to better have a look at this mail, than the previous mail. > > In trying to group commands, in this case compiler commands, I found some > peculiarities while trying different combinations of the 'Internal Field > Separator' > and the 'Parameter Expansion' operator ${parameter@P}.
I haven't looked at this in any depth, but you should realize that running declare IFS=$(printf ' \t\n') will result in IFS being set to space and tab, since command substitution removes the trailing newline. Maybe that will make a difference. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/