Re: problem with extra space; setting? cygwin only?

[L A Walsh]

re: IFS... yup.  that was it, not sure how it got cleared, but it did.
Thanks for the clue.

As for gmail....necessity creates unfortunate circumstances...having your
main file system (RAID 0) fail, along with your backups (in a separate disk
enclosure, also RAID 0), isn't something that happens every day.  Still
unsure what, if anything, is recoverable.


On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 1:04 PM Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
wrote:

> Why would you use their incompetent webmail if you know it is broken?
>
>
> Be that as it may, I can trivially reproduce your error by destroying my
> own $IFS
>
> $ output="" IFS=/
> $ set output
> $ printf ${1:+-v $1} "%s:%s" 23 myproc
> bash: printf: ` output': not a valid identifier
>
>