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From: yba@mit-athena.ARPA (Mark H Levine)
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Subject: Re: does anybody use IFS in sh?
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Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 22:51:22 EDT
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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.