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From: chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
Subject: Re: Changing the IFS in sh.
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>I know how to change the IFS in the Bourne Shell to "::", say,
>BUT I would like to change it from "<space><tab><newline>"
>to "<newline>". Is this possible ? I've tried IFS="\013"
>& IFS="\n" to no avail.

Try

IFS='
'

where there is a literal newline between the single quotes.

Chet
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