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Date:      Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:37:09 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sendmail + Cyrus + Procmail(?) + SpamAssassin
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304012236010.4708-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <87brzqxmwy.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>

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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote:

> I may be showing my ignorance here, but what is "IFS"?  Googling for
> "sendmail forward ifs" returned over 3000 hits, none of them actually
> explaining it.

IFS is a /bin/sh variable controlling which characters are considered
'whitespace'.

-- 
jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/
ioctl(2): probably the coolest Unix system call in the world



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