On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Terry Moore wrote: > I routinely clean up old files after a time. Some of these files have spaces > in the file name. I have a Solaris 10 server. With tar, I used to have my > ksh script capture and change the IFS ksh variable. I save it to OIFS, set > it to just a newline character, and then do the tar using an include file > containing the list of files I want to put on the tape. When the tar is > done, I put the IFS back the way it was from OIFS. > This has worked quite well in the past,...
Is this behavior of Solaris 10 tar documented somewhere? I looked at the online Solaris 10 documentation, but can't find any reference to IFS being obeyed by Solaris 10 tar: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/816-5165/6mbb0m9td/index.html Tim
