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Re: [Newbie] 'set|grep' doesn't work as expected

Preben Peppe Guldberg wrote:


Således berettede Phil Pennock (Phil.Pennock@xxxxxxxxxxx) den [020525]:


On 2002-05-24 at 20:27 -0300, Thiago F. G. Albuquerque wrote:


In bash I can type




set | grep <something>




and it's ok.




In zsh, it gives me the message:




Binary file (standard input) matches




Why?




Because you have something in the environment with a non-plaintext
representation.



I think that would be IFS. In bash the default is <space><tab><newline>,
while zsh add <nul> to these.



You're right. Look:

1 ~> echo $IFS | dump
0000  20  9  A  0  A                                     .....

This is <space>, '\t', '\n' and '\0'. The last "A" is the '\n' printed by echo.

In bash, IFS is set to nothing.

I unset IFS in zsh and "set|grep" worked again.
Using "grep -a" also works.

Is it ok if I remove \0 from IFS?

I would like to thank everybody who replied to my message. Thank you.

Thiago
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