Re: possible non-posix behaviour with sh/bash and IFS

2006-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
walter harms wrote: > Bash Version: 3.0 > Patch Level: 16 > Release Status: release > > description: > > according to this paper: http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/shdiffs.html > > "If IFS is null, there is no separator, for example: > > $ IFS=" > $ set a b c > $ echo "$*" > abc > " > > Thi

possible non-posix behaviour with sh/bash and IFS

2006-09-10 Thread walter harms
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i586 OS: linux Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.0 -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.0/../readline-5.0 Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i586-