does anybody use IFS in sh?
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honey at down
Sat Jun 9 01:18:22 AEST 1984
i use IFS in my "path" command (sh version of "which"):
#! /bin/sh
IFS="${IFS}:"
for arg do
file=`basename ${arg}`
for directory in $PATH; do
if [ -x ${directory}/${file} ]; then
echo ${directory}/${file}
fi
done
done
'course i had to haq up test to use -x ...
once upon a time bourne and i bet a quarter on who could cons up a
better script for this ... i spent my winnings chomping inky, blinky,
pinky, and sue. (he used sed -e 's/:/ /g' on $PATH.)
peter honeyman
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