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Re: Replacements for regular shell builtins
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Replacements for regular shell builtins |
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Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:14:05 -0800 |
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address@hidden (James Youngman) writes:
> If these commands were part of the Bash implementation (or, strictly,
> just that we could rely on the presence of Bash)
Yes, that would be reasonable.
> My only remaining worry though is, does this sort of implementation do
> the right thing if $IFS is set to a funny value?
Yes, because IFS is not inherited from the environment.
(Otherwise the Solaris etc. implementations would be buggy.)