Re: Splitting in shell (bash)

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 00:51:58 -0000 (UTC), Lem Novantotto wrote:
 

But you could have more using IFS.

 
IFS is the way to go.
 
If you want your change to IFS to be only temporary, you can restrict it
to a subshell by putting the code sequence in ???( ... )???. But then you
cannot pass variables back to the parent shell.
 
Another option is to use a coproc command.

Or put it in a function and declare IFS local.
~$ xxx () { local IFS="$IFS|" ; echo "$IFS" ; }
~$ xxx

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~$ echo $IFS