On 09/02/2016 03:26 AM, Bastian Bittorf wrote: > what about using 'set', it already default to your > [any spaces also TABS] because of IFS. so: > > set -- one two three four five; echo $2 $3 $4 > > i has two downsides: > 1) it's not intuitive > 2) it overwrites the ARGS
3) It's processing command line arguments instead of lines from stdin, so is not actually performing an analogous function without adding "xargs" and a shell loop. Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
