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Old 04-22-2009
lavascript lavascript is offline
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Oddly enough just setting IFS to nothing seems to have fixed it.

I'm not entirely sure why, but gathered it would around the field separator.

I tried doing this :-

Code:
oldIFS=$IFS
IFS="\n\r"

if [ ....blah

IFS=$oldIFS
.and noticed it worked correctly but the print output from awk was missing n's and r's.

Through trial and error i found setting
Code:
IFS=""
made it work.

Anyone know why?

cheers