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Re: The IFS variable - a confusing issue. [+POSIX conformance pb]: msg#00270

shells.bash.bugs

Subject: Re: The IFS variable - a confusing issue. [+POSIX conformance pb]

> You should be able to do:
>
> IFS=: command eval 'list=($PATH)'
>
> as "command" is not a special builtin. However, it works with
> ksh or zsh but doesn't seem to work with bash --posix (3.0.13,
> bug?).

Thanks for the report. This has been fixed.

Chet

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