Re: grep on potato

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Subject: Re: grep on potato
From: Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:21:57 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] s2vlnb1su3p.fsf@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> from "Mikolaj J. Habryn" on 1999/08/24 12:03 +0800
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On Tue 24 Aug 1999, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote:
> 
>     JB> what has happened with grep? on slink it act nice and sanely,
>     JB> but on potato it does wierd things with the following:
> 
>   Try 'set | less', and you'll see that:
> 
> IFS='
> ^@'
> 
>   which is indeed an unprintable character. Having said that, it's all 

Isn't the value of IFS a bug in itself? It doesn't do that on my x86
potato (although that isn't 100% up to date on potato).


Paul Slootman
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