[Gllug] Re: Bash scripting question

Craig Millar gllug at craigmillar.org
Thu Aug 10 19:36:35 UTC 2006


On 10/08/06 20:23 +0100, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> tom at t40:~$ export IFS='
> > '
> tom at t40:~$ #there was no space after the first ', only a linebreak

Alternately you could use: IFS=$'\n'
Also, don't forget to include: unset IFS
at the end of the loop so that other commands aren't confused.

hth
craig
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