On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Arno van Amersfoort wrote: > I ran into a problem after upgrading my system to testing last week, > causing one of my scripts not to work anymore. During installation I let > the installer redirect sh to dash. Although it is POSIX compliant (as > far as I know) it doesn't work properly. This was caused by the fact the > dash doesn't understand that setting IFS=$'\n' means that the seperator > is EOL. Instead dash just sees it as IFS='n' . I think it's a bug, > although not sure...
Hi, a IFS=$'\n' syntax isn't specified in POSIX, you should set it this way: $ IFS=' ' $ Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
