Fwd: playing with IFS

["Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@xxxxxxxxx>]

Accidentally replied only to Dana.

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From: Mark J. Reed <markjreed@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: playing with IFS
To: dana <dana@xxxxxxx>

On Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 10:47 PM dana <dana@xxxxxxx> wrote:

i don't see the difference

The first one tries to put expansion flags in {} instead of (). That's nothing to do with spaces, Ray. It's always ${(flags)...} - curlies on the outside, parens on the inside. 

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As for this:

     sed -r 's/(\x1b\[K[:-]\x1b\[m\x1b\[K)[[:space:]]*/\1 /g' 

Even if you stick with sed you might prefer an ANSI string version of the command:

     $'s/(\e\\[K[:-]\e\\[m\e\\[K)[ \t]*/\\1 /g'

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