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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

>>   +for prerequisite in $(echo "$1" | tr , ' ')
>
> So, you dislike the space separator, but you also dislike the IFS games
> that save a few new processes? ;) (Think of Windows, where fork is expensive).

You can play IFS=, game, then ;-)

I have to admit that it feels so 80'ish, back when our UNIX machines were
so slow that we tried to shave every fork+exec from our shell scripts by
using built-ins when possible, though.