Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 00:49:28 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing $IFS in a bash shell Message-ID: <20011203004928.D2208@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20011202144947.B27117@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <3C097584.B51ECEBC@pantherdragon.org> <20011201173255.N13613@blossom.cjclark.org> <ausnaup7da.nau@localhost.localdomain> <3C0AABE1.1DB4F9EC@pantherdragon.org> <20011202144947.B27117@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:49:47PM -0800, Crist J . Clark wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:32:01PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> > I solved this one on the command line:
> >
> > $ IFS="
> > > "
> >
> > This gives the result I want insofar as how item list word-splitting
> > works now:
> >
> > $ ls
> > file 1 file 2 file 3 file 4
> > $ for dir in `find * -type f` ; do echo -n "test "; echo ${dir}; done
> > test file 1
> > test file 2
> > test file 3
> > test file 4
> >
> > Now, how do I do the above in a script? Like this?
>
> Actually, after all of this trying to get a newline in IFS, I think,
>
> $ IFS=""
>
> Will work fine for what you want too. Either way, there is no reason
> not to put,
>
> IFS="
> "
>
This works in bash, honestly, I have written scripts in production use
as we speak that rely on it !
> Or
>
> IFS=""
>
This doesn't work. Well, let me qualify that. It never worked in any
bash script I have been paid to write !
--
Regards
Cliff
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