Hi. In comp.unix.shell [1] somebody wondered about IFS=: read a b <<< a:b; echo "'$a' '$b'" ending up in 'a b' ''
Korn and Z seem to behave different. I see that across all my available Bash versions. I remember the colon to be special in some way (was it hostnames in a file path?), but I don't know. If this is intended behaviour, can you tell me why (it's gone with quoting/escaping, of course)? J. [1] <df5a1262-09ff-4c97-94e8-83a5a046f...@p36g2000prp.googlegroups.com>
