Re: Command grouping

[Mischa Baars]

On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 10:42 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hi Chet,

The bash manual page tells us that is the default value, nothing special.

I was trying to remove the whitespace, such that whitespaces are allowed in 
project directory names, as was considered the default scenario as far as I 
know.

Mischa.