Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!rna!n44a!wjh12!genrad!decvax!mit-athena!yba From: yba@mit-athena.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: does anybody use IFS in sh? Message-ID: <165@mit-athe.UUCP> 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: Fri, 22-Jun-84 10:03:37 EDT References: <163@callan.UUCP>, <243@down> Lines: 4 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.