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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting bad option(s) with awk Post 302369054 by aigles on Friday 6th of November 2009 10:14:06 AM
Old 11-06-2009
Quote:
You should have set IFS to _ before that command.
You cannot set IFS only for the set builtin using that syntax.
On my AIX box, seting IFS for the set builting work fine (at the prompt level, not in a script file) :
Code:
> OriginalString='-p/usr/home/dfusr/adm/props/Comments.properties_-iPEL17'
> set -x
> IFS=_ set -A cmdLineArgs -- $OriginalString
+ IFS=_
+ set -A cmdLineArgs -- -p/usr/home/dfusr/adm/props/Comments.properties -iPEL17
> echo "cmdLineArgs[0]:::::::: ${cmdLineArgs[0]}"
+ echo cmdLineArgs[0]:::::::: -p/usr/home/dfusr/adm/props/Comments.properties
cmdLineArgs[0]:::::::: -p/usr/home/dfusr/adm/props/Comments.properties
> echo "cmdLineArgs[1]:::::::: ${cmdLineArgs[1]}"
+ echo cmdLineArgs[1]:::::::: -iPEL17
cmdLineArgs[1]:::::::: -iPEL17
>

Jean-Pierre.
 

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