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and subject line Bug#409179: DASH: Settings IFS=$'\n' doesn't work properly
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Package: dash
Version: 0.5.3-6
I ran into a problem after upgrading my system to testing last week,
causing one of my scripts not to work anymore. During installation I let
the installer redirect sh to dash. Although it is POSIX compliant (as
far as I know) it doesn't work properly. This was caused by the fact the
dash doesn't understand that setting IFS=$'\n' means that the seperator
is EOL. Instead dash just sees it as IFS='n' . I think it's a bug,
although not sure...
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Ing. A.C.J. van Amersfoort (Arno)
Department Of Electronics (ELD, k1007)
Huygens Laboratory
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9504
Niels Bohrweg 2
2333 CA Leiden
The Netherlands
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 01:42:14PM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Arno van Amersfoort wrote:
> > I ran into a problem after upgrading my system to testing last week,
> > causing one of my scripts not to work anymore. During installation I let
> > the installer redirect sh to dash. Although it is POSIX compliant (as
> > far as I know) it doesn't work properly. This was caused by the fact the
> > dash doesn't understand that setting IFS=$'\n' means that the seperator
> > is EOL. Instead dash just sees it as IFS='n' . I think it's a bug,
> > although not sure...
>
> Hi, a IFS=$'\n' syntax isn't specified in POSIX, you should set it this
> way:
>
> $ IFS='
> '
> $
Closing. Thanks, Gerrit.
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