... is nothing .. empty .. nonexisting .. gone .. none .. On Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 6:57 AM Lawrence Velázquez <v...@larryv.me> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2025, at 10:26 PM, Wiley Young wrote: > > bash(1): "If the value of IFS is null, no word splitting occurs." > > > > ~ $ IFS=$'\0' > > Note that this is the same as > > IFS= > > so there's no reason to use the former assignment. > > Also, in the context of the shell language, "null" almost always > means "zero-length", not NUL. > > -- > vq > >