Re: FYI: Set IFS in libtool for ash

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:27:37PM +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>
> How can it do anything without IFS?  Do you mean that the variable
> is not set, but the shell behaves as if it had a sensible whitespace
> default?

IFS (Input Field Separators.) A string treated as a list of characters
    that is used for field splitting and to split lines into fields
    with the read command.  If IFS is not set, the shell shall behave
    as if the value of IFS is <space>, <tab>, and <newline>; see Field
    Splitting.  Implementations may ignore the value of IFS in the
    environment at the time the shell is invoked, treating IFS as if
    it were not set.