Re: Spaces in $()

[Nikolai Weibull <zsh-users-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Nikolai Weibull <zsh-users-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [Oct 24, 2004 23:37]:
> Because that's the way it's supposed to work.  $(...) without
> surrounding double-quotes is split by IFS.

Sorry for responding to my own posts twice in a row.  Anyway, is the
lesson to always write code like

var="$(...)"

instead of

var=$(...)

?  I mean, in what situations do you want $(...) to be split by IFS in
scripts?
	nikolai

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