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Bug#288182: Why do we not reset IFS?



Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net> schrieb:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:23:39PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
>> Now for the real problem. In tetex-bin's postinst, we have:
>> 
>>   OIFS='$IFS'
[...]
>> #  IFS='$OIFS'
[...]
> Would changing the first and last lines to
>
> OIFS="$IFS"
> ...
> IFS="$OIFS"
>
> using double-quote marks solve the problems?  I assume it would!

Thank you very much for pointing out the obvious. Arggh.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer




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