On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:17:05AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > is totally reliable and does not need $IFS hacking (which amounts to > "guess a char I might not see in a filename). Hmm...I don't have as much problem with it, but that may be because since I started using Unix around 1980, using IFS to parse records has been a useful tool. Something like: SAVIFS=$IFS IFS=: while read INLINE </etc/passwd do set $INLINE (process fields) done; IFS=$SAVIFS (Yeah, if it gets too complicated, shift to awk.) Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
