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Re: read builtin. input processes improperly inheriting IFS setting
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: read builtin. input processes improperly inheriting IFS setting |
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Fri, 26 Jul 2013 22:55:22 +0200 |
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Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:
> Do you mean variable expansions?
No, I mean what I write.
> Here's the code in question, simplified even further:
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> imadev:~$ unset IFS
> imadev:~$ foo=a/b/c
> imadev:~$ cat < <(echo $foo)
> a/b/c
> imadev:~$ IFS=/ cat < <(echo $foo)
> a b c
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> Clearly the IFS assignment is affecting the expansion of $foo inside
> the process substitution.
That's the bug. Please read 2.9.1 Simple Commands.
Andreas.
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