* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:56:04PM CEST:
> >>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> RW> Posix allows shells to have IFS unset at startup (and some older Debian
> RW> ash versions -- IIRC distributed with RedHat -- do this); unset IFS is
> RW> fine
>>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RW> Posix allows shells to have IFS unset at startup (and some older Debian
RW> ash versions -- IIRC distributed with RedHat -- do this); unset IFS is
RW> fine since the shell is required to behave as if it were set to space
RW> tab newli
Posix allows shells to have IFS unset at startup (and some older Debian
ash versions -- IIRC distributed with RedHat -- do this); unset IFS is
fine since the shell is required to behave as if it were set to space
tab newline. However, set but empty IFS is different: it disables field
splitting: o
