Re: Dash problem with IFS

[Sven Mascheck <mascheck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 07:01:56PM +0300, Oleg Verych wrote:

> # just newline
> IFS=`printf '\n+'`; IFS=${IFS%+}

> last example is POSIXly correct ugliness. Bashizm looks better (:
> 
> IFS=$'\n'

PS: I see the problem distinguishing a tab from a space,
but everything but a literal newline is bloat

IFS='
'
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