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14 # if IFS side effects in ${IFS=} assignments take place, how do you cope with
15 # later changes to IFS in the same set of expansions? You've already
16 # committed to using the first character of the (old) IFS to expand $* in
17 # the previous expansions, and changing it to not include ' ', for instance,
18 # results in the first couple of ${*} below not being split at all
23 printf '<%s> ' ${*}${IFS=}${*}${IFS:=-}"${*}"
25 printf "after 1: IFS "
31 printf '<%s> ' ${*}${IFS=}${*}${IFS:=-}"${*}"
33 printf "after 2: IFS "