Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 12:50:00 -0700 (PDT) From: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6557: /bin/sh && IFS Message-ID: <199805121950.MAA26446@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/6557; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: woods@zeus.leitch.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc: Subject: Re: bin/6557: /bin/sh && IFS
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 15:51:52 -0400 (EDT)
> #!/bin/sh
> XXX=/1:/2:/3:
> IFS=:
> echo /0:$XXX
>
> The expected result should be: "/0 /1 /2 /3"
> However, with current /bin/sh it's: "/0:/1 /2 /3"
Oddly enough this same problem exists in PD KSH v5.2.13 97/10/27.
This problem does not exist in any SysV derived Bourne shell, including
the SunOS-{4,5} ones, nor in any Korn shell that I tried.
I'm fairly sure POSIX.2 requires the SysV behaviour (though I haven't
bothered to check).
--
Greg A. Woods
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