Once, long ago--actually, on Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 02:18:16PM CDT--Mike Wright (mike.wright@mailinator.com) said:
exactly what I needed. I'd never discovered IFS before
As you've discovered, it's quite useful to manipulate IFS. Just a suggestion, however. In scripts where you modify IFS, do something like:
IFSAVE=$IFS; ...do stuff... IFS=$IFSAVE
Depending on what you're doing to/with IFS, it can lead to confusion with other commands if it's not as expected.
Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@dminet.com