Revision as of 23:36, 29 February 2016

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Note you must set IFS back to " " after setting it to something else, so the basic shell function work as expected. This is done with IFS=" ".

Also see:

bash set List Separator

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 ==IFS==
-==List Separator==
+<blockquote style="background-color: Gold; border: solid thin Goldenrod;">
+:'''Note''' you must set IFS back to " " after setting it to something else, so the basic shell function work as expected. This is done with IFS=" ".<br>
-The default list separator is space. That can be changed by setting the value of the <tt>IFS</tt> variable before executing <tt>set</tt>.
+</blockquote>
-Example:
+Also see:
-<pre>
+<blockquote style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: solid thin lightgrey;">
-arg="a,b,c"
+:[[bash set#List_Separator|bash <tt>set</tt> List Separator]]
-IFS=","
-set ${arg}
-</pre>
-will identically assign "a", "b", "c" to positional parameters $1, $2 and $3.
-<blockquote style="background-color: Gold; border: solid thin Goldenrod;">
-:'''Note''' you must set IFS back to " " after setting it to something else, so the basic shell function work as expected. This is done with IFS=" ".<br>
 </blockquote>