Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site down Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!mgnetp!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!down!honey From: honey@down (code 101) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: does anybody use IFS in sh? Message-ID: <243@down> Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 11:18:22 EDT Article-I.D.: down.243 Posted: Fri Jun 8 11:18:22 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jun-84 08:13:13 EDT References: <163@callan.UUCP> Organization: The Official Fun Machine of Princeton Univ. EECS Lines: 19 i use IFS in my "path" command (sh version of "which"): #! /bin/sh IFS="${IFS}:" for arg do file=`basename ${arg}` for directory in $PATH; do if [ -x ${directory}/${file} ]; then echo ${directory}/${file} fi done done 'course i had to haq up test to use -x ... once upon a time bourne and i bet a quarter on who could cons up a better script for this ... i spent my winnings chomping inky, blinky, pinky, and sue. (he used sed -e 's/:/ /g' on $PATH.) peter honeyman