Re: [tlug] Adding text to the beginning of a file

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

Edward Wright writes:

 > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:30:15AM +0900, Edward Wright wrote:
 > > > export IFS=""
 > > 
 > > Hmm. Yeah, it does, but I don't get why. 
 > 
 > A little further checking shows that it only seems to work. Tho I expect
 > it will "seem to work" just about anywhere you use it :)

No, it's only going to seem to work for echo.  Try

touch abc def "ghi jkl"
export IFS=""
for file in `ls`; do ls $file; done