IFS/read dash bug (was Re: Problems with the new base-files-4.0-5?)

[Cyrille Lefevre]

Le 18/03/2011 14:46, David Sastre a écrit :

>> [ -e "${p}" ]&&  IFS=',' read -r PRINTER dummy<  "${p}"
>
> Works in bash, posh, mksh and zsh, but fails (at least for me) in
> dash.

regarding SUSv3, read is not a special builtin, so, should work under 
every shell, if that fails under dash, it should be fixed.

Regards,

Cyrille Lefevre
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