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  Re: Unset array doesn't work Clark Wang <dearvoid@gmail.com> - 2018-02-27 10:18 +0800

#13756 — Re: Unset array doesn't work

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> 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}
>

What about myIFS=$(printf ' \n\t')? Does the order of chars in IFS make a
difference?

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