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`$*' and IFS concatenation issue with traditional shells and
bash-2.04.  Report by Seanster@Seanster.com.
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2006-05-04 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Special Shell Variables) <IFS>: Document
`$*' and IFS concatenation issue with traditional shells and
bash-2.04. Report by Seanster@Seanster.com.
2006-05-03 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Identify more

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The proper value for @code{IFS} (in regular code, not when performing
splits) is @samp{@key{SPC}@key{TAB}@key{RET}}. The first character is
especially important, as it is used to join the arguments in @samp{@@*}.
especially important, as it is used to join the arguments in @samp{$*};
however, note that traditional shells, but also bash-2.04, fail to adhere
to this and join with a space anyway.
@item LANG
@itemx LC_ALL