djl@dplace.UUCP (Dave Lampe) (03/28/89)
In a Bourne shell script I want to set the field separators to the standard blank, tab, and new-line to make sure that noone has played games. The question is what is the best looking way to do it? A way that makes it obvious to someone reading the script what I am doing. The best way I have come up with is: IFS="`echo \" \t\n\c\"`" ; export IFS Does anyone have a better command line? Dave Lampe {ames | lll-tis | sun | pyramid}!pacbell!dplace!djl (415) 455-1571