On Mär 30 2023, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 10:10 AM Oğuz İsmail Uysal > <oguzismailuy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 3/30/23 2:12 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> > IFS=, >> > str='foo,bar,,roo,' >> > printf '"%s"\n' $str >> zsh is the only shell that generates an empty last field, no other shell >> exhibits this behavior. > > So? This is argumentum ad populum. The fact that most shells do X > doesn't imply that POSIX says X. > > It could very well mean that all shells are implementing POSIX wrong. > Except zsh.
Note that zsh by default is not a POSIX shell, and even in sh compatibilty mode it doesn't strive to be POSIX compliant. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
