[979] in bugtraq
Re: IFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (robert owen thomas)
Mon Feb 13 17:49:42 1995
From: rthomas@pamd.cig.mot.com (robert owen thomas)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 13:33:44 -0600
In-Reply-To: dwilliss@tnt.microimages.com (Dave Williss)
"IFS" (Feb 13, 9:01am)
To: dwilliss@tnt.microimages.com
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
hello, David--
IFS: internal field separator. used by the shell to delimit fields. by
default, IFS is set to equal three things: tab, newline, and space. by
manipulating this shell environment variable, commands can have odd (or
even dangerous) results.
suggestion: pick up the Kochan and Wood shell programming book.
hope this helps!
regards,
--robert
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