Re: Dash problem with IFS

[Oleg Verych <olecom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/11/09, Sven Mascheck:
> 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

Old plain WYSIWYG :)

>  IFS='
>
> '

but this is something, that doesn't look like one new line... (e-mail
or web text encodings/filters?)
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