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Bash seems to behave unpredictably in regards to temporary, per-command variable assignment, specifically with IFS. I often assign IFS to a temporary value in conjunction with the read command. I ...
Standford asked 29/4, 2019 at 23:35

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since the default value of the IFS variable is a newline/tab/space, the following code: while read -r line do echo $line done <<< "hello\nworld" outputs: hello world but, if ...
Eberle asked 1/5, 2022 at 21:14

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How to make my ARRAYFORMULA(A1 + something else) to stop producing results after there are no more values in A1 column, eg. to skip blank values. By default it gives endlessly "something else&...
Isochronism asked 5/1, 2022 at 18:23

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I'm trying to use for in the shell to iterate over filenames with spaces. I read in a stackoverflow question that IFS=$'\n' could be used and that seems to work fine. I then read in a comment to on...
Weathersby asked 4/10, 2013 at 21:19

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If the following example, which sets the IFS environment variable to a line feed character... IFS=$'\n' What does the dollar sign mean exactly? What does it do in this specific case? Where can ...
Mayday asked 8/11, 2010 at 21:26

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~ ls A B C On bash (looks wrong) ~IFS=$'\x00' read -a vars < <(find -type f -print0); echo "${vars}" ABC On zsh (looks good) ~IFS=$'\x00' read -A vars < <(find -type f -print0); e...
Note asked 6/3, 2019 at 3:25

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I've encountered a strange problem after temporarily changing IFS for the purpose of array building: $ echo "1 2 3" |while read myVar1 myVar2; do echo "myVar1: ${myVar1}"; echo ...
Histone asked 11/7, 2020 at 23:50

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If you have a string with a delimiter, let's say a , character, you could use IFS just like that: text=some,comma,separated,text IFS="," read -ra ADDR <<< "$text" for i in ${ADDR[@]} do ...
Chelicera asked 11/5, 2019 at 23:48

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Experiment 1 Here is my first script in file named foo.sh. IFS=: for i in foo:bar:baz do echo $i done This produces the following output. $ bash foo.sh foo bar baz Experiment 2 This is my ...
Huehuebner asked 20/9, 2017 at 5:11

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I would like to split string contains \r\n in bash but carriage return and \n gives issue. Can anyone give me hint for different IFS? I tried IFS=' |\' too. input: projects.google.tests.inbox.doc...
Synaeresis asked 4/10, 2017 at 2:43

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This is my code to loop over colon separated values and do something with each value. f() { IFS=: for arg in $1 do echo arg: $arg done } f foo:bar:baz This works fine in most POSIX complia...
Chaulmoogra asked 20/9, 2017 at 5:28

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How to convert array elements with single quotes and comma in Bash. arr=("element1" "element2" "element3") #element1 element2 element3 Desired result 'element1','element2','element3' From Marti...
Reproduce asked 21/8, 2017 at 12:9

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I'm going through a Bash tutorial, and specifically the subject of word splitting. This script, called "args", helps demonstrate word splitting examples: #!/usr/bin/env bash printf "%d args:" $# ...
Glory asked 1/4, 2017 at 23:54

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I thought setting IFS to $'\n' would help me in reading an entire file into an array, as in: IFS=$'\n' read -r -a array < file However, the above command only reads the first line of the file...
Dexedrine asked 6/2, 2017 at 5:5

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On my GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release I am doing some tests to answer a question. The idea is to split a :-separated string and and each of its elements into an array. For this, I try to set t...
Matelda asked 29/10, 2015 at 14:24

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I've been surprised with the line marked (!!) in the following example: log1 () { echo $@; } log2 () { echo "$@"; } X=(a b) IFS='|' echo ${X[@]} # prints a b echo "${X[@]}" # prints a b echo ${X...
Hockett asked 28/7, 2015 at 12:52

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I'm learning bash and I saw this construction: cat file | while IFS= read -r line; do ... done Can anyone explain what IFS= does? I know it's input field separator, but why is it being set to n...
Underwood asked 21/10, 2014 at 5:37

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I am trying to split a string in BASH based on 2 delimiters - Space and the \. This is the string:- var_result="Pass results_ADV__001__FUNC__IND\ADV__001__FUNC__IND_08_06_14_10_04_34.tslog" I w...
Septempartite asked 6/8, 2014 at 14:47

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I'm trying to split a string into two variables (without having to use a while loop): var="hello:world" IFS=':' read var1 var2 <<< $var echo "var1: $var1" echo "var2: $var2" but i'm no...
Revoke asked 22/11, 2013 at 12:10

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I have a text file which contains text lines separated by an empty line of text. I want to push the content of that file into an array, and use the empty line as a separator. I tried IFS="\n" (or "...
Casing asked 30/8, 2013 at 18:31

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Let's say I execute this script via a cronjob: IFS=$'\n' for i in `cat "$1"`; do echo "$i" >> xtempfile.tmp; done It works fine without causing any issues. But when I run this in a termi...
Continuation asked 19/6, 2013 at 3:43

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I'm bored, and decided to write a script for a text-based adventure of mine using bash. Basically, it's supposed to animate a typewriter in certain cases for dramatic storytelling. I can do this ma...
Electrolier asked 5/5, 2012 at 4:5
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