On Tuesday, February 19, 2019 7:18:57 PM CET Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > > > makes the IFS handling a bit more robust. > > What I meant is that > > save_IFS="$IFS" > for fpf_dir in $fpf_dirs > do > IFS="$save_IFS" > [Some more code] > done > IFS="$save_IFS" > > is more robust than > > save_IFS="$IFS" > for fpf_dir in $fpf_dirs > do > [Some more code] > done > IFS="$save_IFS" > > because the [Some more code] may invoke word splitting, and as a programmer > I would expect this word splitting to be performed against the default IFS.
Makes sense, thanks. I was only confused by the var="$quoted_var" style, which I was before discouraged from. Pavel
