Re: win32 short name and IFS='~'

[Charles Wilson]

Boehne, Robert wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> Ok, let me get this out.
> "Hello, I'm Robert, and I've never used shell functions."
> Admitting it is the first step to recovery. ;)
>
> Seriously, I'm not familiar with what can be done with them,
> but if you can find a simple way to replace IFS with shell
> functions, let us all know!

Well, not in general, no, of course not.  IFS separates words. 
Youkindaneedthatorthingsgetconfused.

But if we're doing this:

my_cmd="do one thing~now do another thing~and then another"

That can often be replaced by

my_cmd="do_my_function"
  where
myfunction() {
  do one thing
  do another thing
  and then another
}

Of course, like all structured programming, you need to pass in 
arguments and such...

see win32_libid() and its uses in the cygwin/mingw codepath.

--Chuck