Re: unexpected IFS behavior with the newline character

2003-10-19 Thread Darik Horn
> Here is the relevant documentation from bash (1): >Word Splitting Thanks. (It turns out that the relevant information is in the "Quoting" section of that document.) The solution was to set the IFS variable to a literal value ^M with the $'' operator. The proper form of the given example

Re: unexpected IFS behavior with the newline character

2003-10-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:15:11PM -0400, Darik Horn wrote: > Can anybody explain this shell behavior? -- It doesn't seem consistent > with the documentation about how whitespace is interpreted as an > internal field separator. Here is the relevant documentation from bash (1): Word Splitting