On Thursday, May 24 at 02:40 PM, quoth Cameron Simpson:
On 23May2007 21:21, David Champion <dgc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | * On 2007.05.23, in <20070523233131.GA22736@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,| * "Cameron Simpson" <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > printf "%s\n" "$PATH" | tr : '\012' | while read -r dir; do| > Unless that breaks on Solaris, which it may:-(| | I don't think -r is present in a strict Bourne shell's "read".| Solaris's gives "-r: is not an identifier", but I don't expect that it's | limited to Solaris. I think it's POSIX standard, but not SysV Bourne shell (sorry, no chapter and verse to hand). Solaris ships with the latter as /bin/sh. But as you point out, a single exception may be enough.
What about:
echo $PATH | while read -d : dir ; do
?
~Kyle
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