Comments on: shell split http://meat.net/2007/08/shell-split/ David Terrell's blog Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:25:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Andrew http://meat.net/2007/08/shell-split/#comment-223 Andrew Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:37:11 +0000 http://meat.net/2007/08/shell-split/#comment-223 It doesn't work for me either in an interactive bash session. However, it works just fine on Solaris /bin/sh: #!/bin/sh IFS=. set 1.2.3.4 echo "$1 - $2 - $3 - $4" It doesn’t work for me either in an interactive bash session. However, it works just fine on Solaris /bin/sh:

#!/bin/sh
IFS=.
set 1.2.3.4
echo “$1 – $2 – $3 – $4″

]]> By: Danny Howard http://meat.net/2007/08/shell-split/#comment-222 Danny Howard Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:12:12 +0000 http://meat.net/2007/08/shell-split/#comment-222 Hrmmm. <code> $ IFS=. set 10.20.30.40 $ echo $2 $ IFS=. $ set 10.20.30.40 $ echo $2 $ echo $1 10 20 30 40 </code> Did I miss something or are you running bash? :) -danny Hrmmm.


$ IFS=. set 10.20.30.40
$ echo $2

$ IFS=.
$ set 10.20.30.40
$ echo $2

$ echo $1
10 20 30 40

Did I miss something or are you running bash? :)

-danny

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