On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote:

> I may be showing my ignorance here, but what is "IFS"?  Googling for
> "sendmail forward ifs" returned over 3000 hits, none of them actually
> explaining it.

IFS is a /bin/sh variable controlling which characters are considered
'whitespace'.

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