Re: Debconf syntax error message that I don't understand

["John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2@cox.net>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:02:33PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Doesn't work, unfortunately:
>
> >   # now get rid of the commas by assigning to the positional parameters
> >   set -x
> >   OLD_IFS="$IFS"
>
> <snip>
>
> >   IFS=$OLDIFS
>
> These variable names don't match,
>
> > + IFS=  printf %s\n SUBST texlive-base/texconfig_ignorantbinarydvipdfmx
>
> So that explains this output when using an empty $IFS.

. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule  # just reads in this file

# just read the file into the script.  run script with

sh -x (yuour script)

too bad nobody every wrote a good sh debugger !

if you want help with IFS read the awk(1) about field separators if bash's writeup is confusing 
about fields and records auto-parsed from input files.  (in this case used as sh function arguments)