There's also the $IFS (Internal Field Separator) for Bourne-like shells. Oh, and Ruby copied Perl's `$/` and `$,` for record and field separators. (The "Englis

There's also the $IFS (Internal Field Separator) for Bourne-like shells. Oh, and Ruby copied Perl's `$/` and `$,` for record and field separators. (The "English" module provides $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR and $FIELD_SEPARATOR.)