Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames [LWN.net]

Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Mar 28, 2009 19:50 UTC (Sat) by dwheeler (guest, #1216)
In reply to: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames by explodingferret
Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Thanks for your comments! In particular, you're absolutely right about swapping the order of \t and \n in IFS - that makes it MUCH simpler. I prefer IFS=`printf '\n\t'` because then it's immediately obvious that \n and \t are the new values. I've put that into the document, with credit.