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

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/18/23 12:45 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:

> > "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.

If IFS is unset, word splitting and other uses behave as if it had the
default value of space, tab, newline.

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