Internal field separator

For many command line interpreters (“shell”) of Unix operating systems, the internal field separator (abbreviated IFS) refers to a variable which defines the character or characters used to separate a pattern into tokens for some operations. IFS typically includes the space, tab, and the newline. From the bash man page:

Internal field separator

For many command line interpreters (“shell”) of Unix operating systems, the internal field separator (abbreviated IFS) refers to a variable which defines the character or characters used to separate a pattern into tokens for some operations. IFS typically includes the space, tab, and the newline. From the bash man page: