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Re: Command grouping
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Command grouping |
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Sat, 12 Oct 2019 10:42:25 -0400 |
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On 10/12/19 9:02 AM, Mischa Baars wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Perhaps to better have a look at this mail, than the previous mail.
>
> In trying to group commands, in this case compiler commands, I found some
> peculiarities while trying different combinations of the 'Internal Field
> Separator'
> and the 'Parameter Expansion' operator ${parameter@P}.
I haven't looked at this in any depth, but you should realize that running
declare IFS=$(printf ' \t\n')
will result in IFS being set to space and tab, since command substitution
removes the trailing newline. Maybe that will make a difference.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/