I know that a custom IFS value can be set for the scope of a single command/built-in. Is there a way to set a custom IFS value for a single statement?? Apparently not, since based on the …

The IFS= read -r line sets the environment variable IFS (to an empty value) specifically for the execution of read. This is an instance of the general simple command syntax: a (possibly …

The following few threads on this site and StackOverflow were helpful for understanding how IFS works: What is IFS in context of for looping? How to loop over the lines of a file Bash, read line …

Parsing an array using IFS with non-whites space values creates empty elements. Even using tr -s to shrink multiple delims to a single delim isn't enough. An example may explain the issue …

Here if the expansion contains any IFS characters, then it split into different 'words' before the command is processed. Effectively this means that these characters split the substituted text …

If you have empty columns, cut -d$'\t' and IFS=$'\t' have different behaviour with regard to them. Cut will treat each individual tab as a distinct separator, while read will take consecutive tabs …

Jun 12, 2015 · Using IFS= LC_ALL=C read -r line works around it there. Using var=value cmd syntax makes sure IFS / LC_ALL are only set differently for the duration of that cmd command. …

To get the file name on the other side, we use LC_ALL=C IFS= read -r -d ''. Where we used read above, we used the default line delimiter of newline, but now, find is using null as the line …

I have a small script, which does not give comma separated output when IFS is used, but IFS is mandatory as i need it to read many other value. The output of the below script is odi_server1 …

The example does not set IFS within the script, because bash disallows importing IFS from the environment, according to a comment in variables.c: /* Don't allow IFS to be imported from the …