wordexp IFS fixes

Tim Waugh tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk
Tue Sep 8 09:50:00 GMT 1998


On 7 Sep 1998, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> |> Bash says that "set a b c" sets three positional parameters, so is this
> |> security hole only for non-whitespace IFS?
> 
> This is not a case of IFS splitting.

The only parts of the spec I have access to at the moment are 3.2
("Quoting") and 3.6 ("Word Expansions").

Do you know off-hand which part talks about word splitting as opposed to
field splitting?

Tim.
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