[BusyBox] Ash *surprises*
David Douthitt
ssrat at mailbag.com
Fri Aug 10 10:35:06 UTC 2001
"Vladimir N. Oleynik" wrote:
> > 6. IFS="," ; set -- $FOO ...where FOO="a, b, c, d" acts differently:
> > ash: returns: $1=a $2=b $3=c $4=d
> > bb ash: returns: $1=" a" $2=" b" $3=" c" $4=" d"
> > ...setting IFS to ", " restores the desired behavior.
>
> This not quick correct...
Now I'm REALLY confused.... I created a test script:
# cat test.ifs
show () {
for i in "$@" ; do
echo -n "/$i/ "
done
echo
}
TEST="a, b, c"
IFS="," ; set -- $TEST
if [ "$1" = "a" ] && [ "$2" = "b" ] && [ "$3" = "c" ] ; then
exit 0
fi
show "$@"
exit 1
...now on a Mandrake 8 system that includes bash, ash, and pdksh, all
return:
# ./test.ifs
/a/ / b/ / c/
With the older non-busybox ash, it also returned that, but had the
expected (but annoying) trait of displaying the entire file as it went.
I'd forgotten it did that; if busybox ash doesn't do that it would be
nice ;-)
I don't know where this business came from; I KNOW I saw that behavior,
but it's not there anywhere I look now. Can't fix it if you can't find
it - and if everybody else does it that way, maybe it doesn't need
fixing....
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