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

[Bill Gradwohl]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

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.

Thank You Eric.

-- 
Bill Gradwohl