On 30 April 2012 18:20, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 4.      In most cases, setting IFS='' is better than the default since
>        $x won't get split.  You rarely want splitting except for read
>        and set.  read can be handled with IFS=<delim> read ...
>        Set requires saving and restoring IFS.

I'm intrigued by this suggestion.  A reasonable way to save/restore
IFS for the 'set' common case:

IFS=<delim> eval set \$var

David Jones

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