On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 14:24 -0700, Chris wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Corey Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > > Perhaps there's a default set in your build of bash. > > As suspected, there was a loose nut between the seat and the keyboard. > > The empty output of "echo $IFS" misled me into thinking that IFS was unset. > > I see now that "echo" does not display the values of bash shell > variables. One can grep the output of "set" to find them:
Or rather, the IFS setting was interfering with bash showing you the
contents of IFS.
[cedwa...@pheasant ~]$ echo foo${IFS}bar
foo bar
[cedwa...@pheasant ~]$ echo "foo${IFS}bar"
foo,bar
Corey
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