On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> 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=${myIFS%x}
>
What about myIFS=$(printf ' \n\t')? Does the order of chars in IFS make a
difference?
