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		jlgaddis on Sept 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TSV Utilities: Command line tools for large, tabul... Are you aware of $IFS?

xashor on Sept 1, 2019 [–]

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.

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