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  Re: Unset array doesn't work Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-02-26 10:07 -0500

#13751 — Re: Unset array doesn't work

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}

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