Mauricio Vergara Ereche wrote: > Hi Brian! > > El Lunes, 8 de Mayo de 2006 11:50, Brian D. McGrew escribio: >> Back in 'ye olden days, we used to have a customized version of bash >> that recognized '/' as a word separator; which was very nice when >> editing command lines, a CTRL-W would not erase your whole typed path, >> just back to the slash. >> >> Without building a new version of bash, how can I make the shell >> recognize '/' as a word separator??? > > You must set the $IFS variable > look in "man bash" the section "Word splitting" Extremely bad idea. $IFS is used to split a command line into arguments for the command you want to run. If you add / to $IFS, you will have to escape every / in all your path names that you want to pass to commands, thus defeating the purpose of the exercise. -- Sjoerd Mullender
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