On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:17:05AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> is totally reliable and does not need $IFS hacking (which amounts to
> "guess a char I might not see in a filename).
Hmm...I don't have as much problem with it, but that may be because
since I started using Unix around 1980, using IFS to parse records has
been a useful tool. Something like:
SAVIFS=$IFS
IFS=:
while read INLINE </etc/passwd
do
set $INLINE
(process fields)
done;
IFS=$SAVIFS
(Yeah, if it gets too complicated, shift to awk.)
Cheers,
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Dave Ihnat
President, DMINET Consulting, Inc.
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