2 Jan
2025
2 Jan
'25
8:28 p.m.
On 1/1/25 10:05 PM, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
I think $IFS ranks at the top of Jim's cabinet of
horrors.
Well, the Bourne shell's combination of importing IFS from the environment
and then using it to split all words was particularly lethal.
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