Re: Dash problem with IFS

[Oleg Verych <olecom@xxxxxxxxx>]

>  So if you want it to have a tab and newline you need to specify
>  them literally, or use something that does interpret escapes,
>  like

newline and tab, because in output substitution trailing '\n's
(default in any `echo`) are removed.

>  IFS=$(echo '\n\t $')

`echo` isn't a good example due to historical feature-support problems, imho.

# newline and tab
IFS=`printf '\n\t'`
# just newline
IFS=`printf '\n+'`; IFS=${IFS%+}

last example is POSIXly correct ugliness. Bashizm looks better (:

IFS=$'\n'

where $' ' is one, not "\t is <tab> in $IFS", guys.
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