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Re: More fun with IFS
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: More fun with IFS |
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Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:17:47 +0100 |
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"Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris@cfajohnson.com> writes:
>> var=${a[*]} ... one two three four # bad
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> Looks good to me. It expands to multiple words, just as an unquoted
> $* would do.
But no field splitting is performed on the expansion, so why are the
colons lost?
Andreas.
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Re: More fun with IFS, Chet Ramey, 2013/01/31