[CentOS] Variable assigned to grep output - missing letter n!

[Michael Gliwinski]

On Wednesday 20 Jul 2011 20:53:06 Sean Carolan wrote:
> I had this in my bash history:
> 
> IFS='\n'
> 
> That seems to have been the cause of the missing n's.

I know you used python in the end, but for the record this should have been:

IFS=$'\n'

i.e. the \n has to be expanded to a newline, otherwise it causes word 
splitting on either '\' or 'n'.


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