Re: [Help-bash] IFS & read

[Stephane Chazelas]

2012-05-26 21:05:13 +0200, Geir Hauge:
[...]
> > What are the allowable IFS characters as far as read is concerned?
> 
> Everything's allowed except NUL (which bash variables can't hold), and
> whitespace is treated specially.
[...]

Note that in this context, "whitespace" means the space, newline
and tab characters, not the other "whitespace" characters like
form feed, vertical tab, backspace (\b)...

-- 
Stephane