On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:55:21PM -0700, Simon Gerraty wrote:
  | 
  | It regularly irks me needing to do things like:
  | FOO!= echo ${VAR} | tr ' ' : 
  | to get rid of the spaces between words in ${VAR} (eg for something
  | that can be passed as say $PATH to a command.)
  | 
  | I'd like to add a modifier that allows one to set or even supress
  | the character used to separate words in a variable expansion.
  | Even if this only worked in conjunction with the :@ modifier it would
  | be handy.
  | 
  | Before I burn precious cycles trying to come up with a name for this
  | modifier does anyone have suggestions or violent objections?

The existing  :C  doesn't suffice ?