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Re: The <newline> character can also be an "IFS whitespace character"

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On 10/20/15 10:21 AM, ziyunfei wrote:
> Quoting from the bash manual: 
> 
> "If IFS has a value other than the default, then sequences of the whitespace characters *space and tab* are ignored at the beginning and end of the word, as long as the whitespace character is in the value of IFS (an IFS whitespace character)."
> 
> If this is true, then the following script
> 
> $ IFS=$'\n'
> $ a=$'\n1\n2\n'
> $ printf "%s\n" $a
> 1
> 2
> 
> should print <> <1> <2> 3 fields, but it doesn't.
> 
> So I guess *space and tab* should be replace by *space, tab and newline* in that section.

That seems reasonable.

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Re: The <newline> character can also be an "IFS whitespace character" Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-10-20 10:51 -0400

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