Re: Command grouping

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/12/19 9:02 AM, Mischa Baars wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Perhaps to better have a look at this mail, than the previous mail.
> 
> In trying to group commands, in this case compiler commands, I found some 
> peculiarities while trying different combinations of the 'Internal Field 
> Separator'
> and the 'Parameter Expansion' operator ${parameter@P}.

I haven't looked at this in any depth, but you should realize that running

declare IFS=$(printf ' \t\n')

will result in IFS being set to space and tab, since command substitution
removes the trailing newline. Maybe that will make a difference.


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