[TUHS] "Webster's Second on the Head of a Pin"?

[Chet Ramey via TUHS]

On 1/1/25 10:05 PM, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> I think $IFS ranks at the top of Jim's cabinet of horrors.

Well, the Bourne shell's combination of importing IFS from the environment
and then using it to split all words was particularly lethal.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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