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[vignesh babu]

I got the exact same thing...

Apples-MacBook-Pro:~ apple$ echo -n "$IFS" | hexdump
0000000 20 09 0a
0000003


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
wrote:

>
> On Aug 30, 2014, at 1:17 PM, vignesh babu wrote:
> >
> > Would it help if I remove the /opt directory & redo the whole thing?
>
> It doesn't sound like it.
>
> Larry's and Brandon's analysis sounds brilliant to me. What is the value
> of IFS on the problem system? Since IFS normally contains whitespace
> characters, maybe a good way to see what's in it is to feed it to hexdump,
> by running:
>
>
> echo -n "$IFS" | hexdump
>
>
> Here's what I get on my system:
>
>
> $ echo -n "$IFS" | hexdump
> 0000000 20 09 0a
> 0000003
>
>
> ...showing that on my system IFS contains the three characters space
> (character 20), tab (character 09) and newline (character 0a). What do you
> get?
>
>
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