Unexpected IFS behaviour on 2.05 and 2.04

[Earl Chew]

Consider the following:

bash-2.05$ A=1/2
bash-2.05$ IFS=/
bash-2.05$ for f in $A/3 ; do echo $f ; done
1
2 3
bash-2.05$

bash-2.04$ A=1/2
bash-2.04$ IFS=/
bash-2.04$ for f in $A/3 ; do echo $f ; done
1
2 3
bash-2.04$

Now running the same on 2.02, I see:

bash-2.02$ A=1/2
bash-2.02$ IFS=/
bash-2.02$ for f in $A/3 ; do echo $f ; done
1
2
3
bash-2.02$

This is the same output that I get on shell implementations on HPUX.

$ sh
$ A=1/2
$ IFS=/
$ for f in $A/3 ; do echo $f; done
1
2
3    
$

Earl