Re: Unset array doesn't work

[Greg Wooledge]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 09:57:10AM -0500, Clint Hepner wrote:
> If necessary, you can define a global (at the expense of a single subprocess)
> 
>     myIFS=$(printf ' \t\n')

That actually won't work, because $(...) strips the trailing newline(s).
This might work:

myIFS=$(printf ' \t\nx') myIFS=${myIFS%x}