Bug#345756: eclipse-platform-common: The included patch fixes the problem (at least for me)

Thu Jan 5 17:05:42 UTC 2006

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:25:43PM +0200, Yaacov Akiba Slama wrote:
> Stephan Michels wrote:
> >On 1/5/06, Yaacov Akiba Slama <ya at slamail.org> wrote:
> >  
> >>+    OFS="$IFS"
> >>+    IFS=":"
> >>    
> >
> >What's the function fo OFS and IFS ?
> >  
> In order to deal with spaces in the filenames, we need to change the 
> separator to be ':' (which cannot be in a filename).

OFS is for storing the old value of IFS and restoring it later. The
meaning of IFS is well explained in 'man bash'.

Cheers,
Michael
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