Re: [Help-bash] Anomalies with ${*}

[Eric Blake]

On 03/27/2012 10:19 AM, Bill Gradwohl wrote:

> That works on my end as well, but I still don't understand why the
> following doesn't work:
> set -- '' '' ''
> IFS='' echo "IFS=''->${*}<-"

Bash parses this line _while IFS is still at it's previous value_.  Only
after it is parsed is IFS temporarily changed for the 'echo' invocation,
but that's too late.

> 
> What am I missing?

You have to set IFS in an independent statement from where you plan on
using $* to take advantage of the new IFS settings.

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