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Re: IFS valid characters


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: IFS valid characters
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:43:36 -0400

> What are the valid charactes for the IFS variable? In particular, is '\0' a 
> valid one? 

Technically, yes, but in practice it's not useful.  There are too many things
represented as C strings to make NUL work right.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/




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