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From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Josh Triplett" <josh@freedesktop.org>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Remove useless uses of cat, and replace with filename arguments or redirection
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 22:42:44 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90706080342j3a5bb7abv58c78d7b532e29de@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706070506230.4046@racer.site>

On 6/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Things like that are known to happen, and that's why "wc -l < file" is a
> better fix than "wc -l file | tr -dc 0-9". In this case, it might not
> matter for a long time, but why not stop being sloppy here and now?

Not sure if I'd call is sloppy, but I also prefer wc -l < file -- it's
definitely safer.

cheers,


m

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-08 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-06  4:36 [PATCH v2] Remove useless uses of cat, and replace with filename arguments or redirection Josh Triplett
2007-06-07  2:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-07  2:23   ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-07  2:52     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-06-07  4:06     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-06-08 10:42       ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2007-06-08 12:52         ` Johannes Schindelin

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