Problem with sh/ksh quoting

[Paul John Falstad]

In article <16289 at s.ms.uky.edu> kherron at ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes:
>line="this is 'a test'"
>
>for word in $line
>do
>	echo $word
>done
>
>I *want* it to produce:
>this
>is
>a test

Try something like this:

$ IFS='
'
$ line='this
is
a test'
$ for i in $line
> do
> echo $i
> done
this
is
a test
$ ...


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