Re: IFS bug (maybe)

Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
 <20240822222119.ijDODf_7@steffen%sdaoden.eu>:
 |  IFS="\012"; echo "$*"$*; a $* "$*";
 ...
 |  -a\b\ca b c

(you all realize it is because of the bogus assumption that octal
is expanded within "" when setting $IFS; i have had $'', but
released dash etc do not support that yet, so i did that.)

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--steffen
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