Re: Bug#95430 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#95430: ash: word-splitting changes break shell scripts)
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 04:36:43PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
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> [16:24:46 tmp]$ bash -c 'echo x-${IFS}-x'
> x- -x
>
> Ah, something might be wrong with the above tests:
Right. The invoked shell will expand ${IFS} to a string that happens
to be whitespace, then parse the line as an "echo" command with
arguments "x-" and "-x", and invoke echo accordingly.
bash -c 'echo "x-${IFS}-x"'
will do what you expect.
Richard Braakman
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