bash / word seperators

[Sjoerd Mullender]

Mauricio Vergara Ereche wrote:
> 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"

Extremely bad idea.  $IFS is used to split a command line into arguments
for the command you want to run.  If you add / to $IFS, you will have to
escape every / in all your path names that you want to pass to commands,
thus defeating the purpose of the exercise.


-- 
Sjoerd Mullender

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