Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-athena.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!mit-athena!yba From: yba@mit-athena.ARPA (Mark H Levine) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: does anybody use IFS in sh? Message-ID: <165@mit-athena.ARPA> Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 22:51:22 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-athe.165 Posted: Sun Jun 17 22:51:22 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jun-84 01:29:27 EDT References: <163@callan.UUCP>, <243@down> Organization: MIT, Project Athena, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 5 I have also found changing IFS to newline to be useful in using the "for" construct to iterate over a list of complicated items. Typically these items were output by "awk" and had several fields which I wanted bound to one shell variable.