Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 21:58:16 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing $IFS in a bash shell Message-ID: <20011201215816.P13613@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <ausnaup7da.nau@localhost.localdomain>; from swear@blarg.net on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:34:57PM -0800 References: <3C097584.B51ECEBC@pantherdragon.org> <20011201173255.N13613@blossom.cjclark.org> <ausnaup7da.nau@localhost.localdomain>
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On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:34:57PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > > 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. > > 1) I think that sets IFS to nothing since it escapes the newline. Sorry, $ IFS=" " > 2) The Unix newline character is ^J (line feed), > not ^M (carriage return). Good point. It would be, IFS=<ctrl-v><ctrl-j><enter> Above, but that doesn't seem to work... > 3) In ksh shell, this works: IFS="\n" But it doesn't work in bash. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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