bash / word seperators

[Mauricio Vergara Ereche]

Hi Brian!

El Lunes, 8 de Mayo de 2006 11:50, Brian D. McGrew escribio:
> Back in 'ye olden days, we used to have a customized version of bash
> that recognized '/' as a word separator; which was very nice when
> editing command lines, a CTRL-W would not erase your whole typed path,
> just back to the slash.
>
> Without building a new version of bash, how can I make the shell
> recognize '/' as a word separator???

You must set the $IFS variable
look in "man bash" the section "Word splitting"

Greets!

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