[Gllug] Bash scripting question

[Dylan]

On Thursday 10 August 2006 20:23, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 18:52 +0100, Dylan wrote:
> > which should extract the comments from the filename in $1 into the array
> > $tags. So far so good. Unfortunately I find that the input is split up at
> > spaces and line breaks, meaning that multi-word tags get distributed
> > across more than one array element.
>
> Setting the IFS (input field separator) environment variable should do
> the trick:

That's the ticket - thanks muchly

Dylan

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