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From: jfv@cbnewsk.att.com (j.f.van valkenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: why does sh do this
Summary: Try export IFS
Keywords: sh, IFS
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.125905.14870@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 12:59:05 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.074041.5300@cs.uow.edu.au>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I didn't see if you exported the env variable IFS?

This would account for the two results, the first one the IFS set but not
exported and in the second it was local to the shell script.


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