On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 11:52:06AM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Not to mention the small detail that the Internal Field Separator is > not a *separator*, but a terminator (with certain exceptions).
POSIX itself admits that the name is confusing. From sh(1posix):
RATIONALE
[...]
The name IFS was originally an abbreviation of ``Input Field Separa‐
tors''; however, this name is misleading as the IFS characters are ac‐
tually used as field terminators.
