On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:05:06PM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> Nicolas Williams writes:
> > % print ${.sh.version}
> > Version M 1993-12-28 s+
> > % function d {
> > typeset OIFS=$IFS
> > typeset IFS='|'
> > read line
> > set -- $line
>
> Oops! You just told it to break up the arguments twice.
Er, actually, I didn't. The first read doesn't break up the arguments
because it has a single variable named to it.
The set ought to split up the line read in.
Adding -r to the read invocation changes nothing.
So maybe this is a shell bug, or maybe just a feature of read that the
shell normally doesn't provide when breaking up arguments.
Nico
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