Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> +for prerequisite in $(echo "$1" | tr , ' ') > > So, you dislike the space separator, but you also dislike the IFS games > that save a few new processes? ;) (Think of Windows, where fork is expensive). You can play IFS=, game, then ;-) I have to admit that it feels so 80'ish, back when our UNIX machines were so slow that we tried to shave every fork+exec from our shell scripts by using built-ins when possible, though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html