On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 01:43:19AM +0300, Radu Spineanu wrote: > Would a fix for #311568 still be accepted for sarge ? At this point, I don't think a bashism is sufficiently important; sorry. You can and should upload a fix to unstable anyway. By the way, I think the portable solution is not IFS='\n', but: IFS=' ' Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]