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Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Content-language: en-US X-Seq: 26848 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: On 2021-08-03 1:39 p.m., Bart Schaefer wrote: > > called_function() { > local IFS; unset IFS # use default > ... > } > That's all it takes.  Indeed I just wanted the default but I didn't know I could just unset the variable.  Sounds like the sort of thing that might cause some sort of deep breakage like erasing your $PATH or something.  Anyway the unset seems fine, thanks Bart and Vin. Probably if I was better I could avoid tinkering with IFS at all.