it would almost make sense (but still be wrong) if it were discussing POSIX shell, where arrays do not exist and these contortions are necessary. what the auth

it would almost make sense (but still be wrong) if it were discussing POSIX shell, where arrays do not exist and these contortions are necessary. what the author is doing is like this in Python: stuff=["a b", "c d", "e f"] for thing in '\n'.join(stuff).split('\n'): print thing