The IFS and loops
The shell has one environment variable, which is called the Internal Field Separator (IFS). This variable indicates how the words are separated on the command line. The IFS variable is, normally or by default, a white space (' '). The IFS variable is used as a word separator (token) for the for command. In many documents, IFS can be any one of the white space, ':', '|', ': ' or any other desired character. This will be useful while using commands such as read, set, for, and so on. If we are going to change the default IFS, then it is a good practice to store the original IFS in a variable.
Later on, when we have done our required tasks, then we can assign the original character back to IFS.
In the following script for_16.sh, we ...
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