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Subject: Re: [ast-users] typeset -r IFS
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> Hello.
>   I have encountered a problem with typesetting the IFS variable. The
> script:
> 
> #!/bin/ksh
> 
> function f1 {
>     typeset -r IFS=" "
> 
>     echo "$(pwd)"
> }
> 
> f1
> 
> is supposed to print the current working directory but ends up with:
> 
> ksh[8]: f1: line 5: IFS: is read only
> 
> Is this an expected behaviour?  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks for answers.
> 
> -- 
> Tomáš Smetana
> Base OS Software Engineer, Red Hat
> RH IRC: #brno #devel #base-os; Freenode IRC: #fedora-devel
> 
> 

Thanks, this was caused by a bug. I have fixed this for the next ksh93s+ update.

David Korn
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