Re: printf '%s\n' "$@" versus <<< redirection

[Kerin Millar]

On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:45:00 +0100
Mike Jonkmans <bashbug@jonkmans.nl> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 12:52:05PM +0000, Kerin Millar wrote:
> > ...
> > The manual has this to say:-
> > 
> > "If IFS is unset, or its value is exactly <space><tab><newline>, the 
> > default, then sequences of <space>, <tab>, and <newline> at the beginning 
> > and end of the results of the previous expansions are ignored, and any 
> > sequence of IFS characters not at the beginning or end serves to delimit 
> > words."
> 
> If IFS is unset then it is slightly ambiguous as to what the IFS characters 
> are,
> in the last part of this sentence.

I agree.

-- 
Kerin Millar