diff --git a/shell/hush_test/hush-read/read_ifs2.right b/shell/hush_test/hush-read/read_ifs2.right
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/shell/hush_test/hush-read/read_ifs2.right
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+|X|Y:Z:|
+|X|Y:Z|
+|X|Y|
+|X|Y|
+|X||
+|X||
+|||
+Whitespace should be trimmed too:
+|X|Y|
diff --git a/shell/hush_test/hush-read/read_ifs2.tests b/shell/hush_test/hush-read/read_ifs2.tests
new file mode 100755
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+++ b/shell/hush_test/hush-read/read_ifs2.tests
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+echo "X:Y:Z:" | (IFS=": " read x y; echo "|$x|$y|")
+echo "X:Y:Z"  | (IFS=": " read x y; echo "|$x|$y|")
+echo "X:Y:"   | (IFS=": " read x y; echo "|$x|$y|")
+echo "X:Y"    | (IFS=": " read x y; echo "|$x|$y|")
+echo "X:"     | (IFS=": " read x y; echo "|$x|$y|")
+echo "X"      | (IFS=": " read x y; echo "|$x|$y|")
+echo ""       | (IFS=": " read x y; echo "|$x|$y|")
+echo Whitespace should be trimmed too:
+echo "X:Y  : " | (IFS=": " read x y; echo "|$x|$y|")