Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 17:32:55 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing $IFS in a bash shell Message-ID: <20011201173255.N13613@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <3C097584.B51ECEBC@pantherdragon.org>; from dmp@pantherdragon.org on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 04:27:48PM -0800 References: <3C097584.B51ECEBC@pantherdragon.org>
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On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 04:27:48PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> I need to change &IFS to be just a newline character, so my for-in-do
> loop doesn't parse spaces in the item list as delimiters, but I can't
> seem to set $IFS properly. None of the following yeild the desired
> result:
>
> IFS=\012
> IFS=\n
> IFS=^M
>
> What is the proper way to change $IFS?
I would expect the last one to work if '^M' is a _literal_ '^M' (that
is your keystrokes are, "IFS=<crtl-v><enter><enter>"). However, I
think,
IFS="\
"
Is probably the "cleanest" way to do it.
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