I’ve seen so many hilariously bad workarounds for this in old shell scripts from lazy engineers who apparently can’t read a man page and don’t realise the delim

I’ve seen so many hilariously bad workarounds for this in old shell scripts from lazy engineers who apparently can’t read a man page and don’t realise the delimiter character is substitutable with more or less any character you like. This is one of this extremely useful features that a surprisingly large number of users don’t seem to know about.