Sheesh. Look what I noticed when I read Michael Ryan's response from
yesterday evening. Is there no end to how many mistakes I can make in
one message?
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 15:50 -0500, Terrence Enger wrote:
The leading "$( on line 4 and the leading ")" on line 13 say "here is
the program to tell you what those values are. Note that this structure
invokes a subshell, so that we need worry about embedded assignments,
Obviously, I should have written "so that we need *not* worry ..."
notably the assignment to IFS, having any effect outside this bit of
code.
I apologize for so much traffic for nothing much.
Cheers,
Terry.