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xashor | 6 years ago

We took the wrong path quite some time ago. Most of the POSIX utils like sort, cut, grep only support \n (or sometimes \0) as row separator.

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jlgaddis|6 years ago

Are you aware of $IFS?

xashor|6 years ago

I think $IFS is only used by the shell (with read and expansions), not by e.g. sort. It is so at least on my system.