[GRASS-dev] g.parser: Note on setting bash' IFS to parse separate identities

[Glynn Clements]

Nikos Alexandris wrote:

> --%<---
> ...individual comma separated identities for an option named "input" 
> can be parsed with the following Bash shell code:
> 
> IFS=,
> for opt in $GIS_OPT_INPUT ; do
>      ... "$opt"
> done
> --->%--
> 
> Doesn't this require to set the IFS back to what it was?  Maybe note it 
> too?

Yes.

Or even just remove the reference to bash from the 7.x documentation. 
If you're using 7.x, Python is almost mandatory, so why would you
write bash scripts?

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>