bash / word seperators
Mauricio Vergara Ereche
mave at nic.cl
Mon May 8 16:05:18 UTC 2006
Hi Brian!
El Lunes, 8 de Mayo de 2006 11:50, Brian D. McGrew escribio:
> Back in 'ye olden days, we used to have a customized version of bash
> that recognized '/' as a word separator; which was very nice when
> editing command lines, a CTRL-W would not erase your whole typed path,
> just back to the slash.
>
> Without building a new version of bash, how can I make the shell
> recognize '/' as a word separator???
You must set the $IFS variable
look in "man bash" the section "Word splitting"
Greets!
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