Re: [tlug] Adding text to the beginning of a file

[Edward Wright <edw@example.com>]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:04:55AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Edward Wright writes:
> 
>  > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:30:15AM +0900, Edward Wright wrote:
>  > > > export IFS=""
>  > > 
>  > > Hmm. Yeah, it does, but I don't get why. 
>  > 
>  > A little further checking shows that it only seems to work. Tho I expect
>  > it will "seem to work" just about anywhere you use it :)
> 
> No, it's only going to seem to work for echo.  Try
> 
> touch abc def "ghi jkl"
> export IFS=""
> for file in `ls`; do ls $file; done

Ah! But of course...... Duh!