Re: tcpdump + IFS = no sense?

Wierd, I've never experienced this, but putting "eval" in front solved
it.

Thanks.

David Schwartz wrote:
tony.andreoli@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm setting it to a carriage return:

IFS="
"

As I've done a million times before. The result is the ability to read
a text file one line at a time rather than one word at a time. That
functionality still works fine, it's just that tcpdump is choking.

With IFS set to just a newline, bash interprets "tcpdump -i eth0" as
"tcpdump" "-i eth0" instead of "tcpdump" "-i" "eth0", which is what it
expects and requires.

DS

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