[ale] [Slightly OT] Help with a quick shell script?

[Charles Shapiro]

Sure np. BTW "IFS=\0x10" also works and might be a little easier to maintain
-- depending on your audience.

-- CHS

On 8/16/06, fd0man??The Magical Floppy Man <fd0man at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 10:32 -0400, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>
> Oops, actually you should use "export IFS=\
> ".
>
> Looks like otherwise you'll have trouble with 'n' in your output due to
> annoying quoting issues. This script works for me:
>
>
> I already had a reply written and noticed this before I hit the send
> button.  :-)  I was utterly confused.  I did not know that you could embed
> newlines directly in a quoted string, and that is pretty good.  What worked
> for me was just:
>
> IFS="
> "
>
> So now, I just need to get the rest of the script working, but that
> shouldn't be terribly hard.  Thanks!
>
>
>     ? Mike
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