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On 2017-07-29 20:07, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > Correct. All my scripts run with IFS='' so for me it does work ;-) |
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> Ah, I hadn't thought about that. I might have to thy that. It makes |
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> code cleaner-looking when you don't have to put all varible references |
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> inside double-quotes. But, in what ways is it going to trip me up |
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> after all these decades of writing shell scripts the old way? |
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Well, anywhere you expand an unquoted variable, or command output via `` |
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or $(), and depend on it being split into separate words. |
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I now religiously use this idiom: |
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ifson ; set -- $( foo ) ; ifsoff |
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for x ; do bar $x ; done |
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to act on separate words output from foo. |
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Basically, I am trying to make my sh(1) scripts look like rc(1) scripts, |
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without the rc bugs and missing features. |
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Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, |
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if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. |
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Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet. |
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