On Fri, Aug 8, 2025, at 9:15 AM, Stan Marsh wrote: >>I think they meant to use IFS=$'\n' rather than IFS='\n' > > In which sense of the word "they" (*) ?
The gender-neutral singular sense. Please do not attempt to litigate
this usage on-list.
> In which sense of the word "meant" ? (**)
OP intended to set IFS to a LF character, as stated later in the
bug report:
It seems to be related to the IFS (here newline).
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