shell script question

[Kevin D. Clark]

bscott at ntisys.com writes:

>   It is essential to understand that shell parsing is built upon splitting a
> command line up into "words", separated by spaces.

Since we're nit-picking, this isn't precisely true.

The shell splits command lines into arguments using the characters in
$IFS as delimiters.  Normally IFS is set to space, tab, and newline,
but this isn't always true.

(now you know why "secure" shell scripts always set IFS to a known
good value...)

Regards,

--kevin
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