As of commit c0674f487c7aec2a3bdf6795cea7e60c9530c360, field splitting is
broken. Minimal-ish reproducer:
$ dash -c 'IFS=:; v=" :: :: "; set $v; echo $#'
5
Expected output: 2
FYI, this is a nice cross-platform script for testing for field splitting
regressions (on dash as well):
http://web.archive.org/web/20051225040851/http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/public/ifs.sh
Dash passes this prior to the referenced commit, and fails it after, in
informative ways.
--
|| modernish -- harness the shell
|| https://github.com/modernish/modernish
||
|| KornShell lives!
|| https://github.com/ksh93/ksh
