... 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
>
>

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