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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: t0090-cache-tree fails due to wc whitespace
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:41:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE8C3AD.9050605@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7F1792D2-8ED4-4546-8ED4-52B95E0AE9FC@silverinsanity.com>

Am 12/14/2011 15:35, schrieb Brian Gernhardt:
> It's time for my periodic complaint:  People assuming `wc -l` outputs
> just a number.  wc on OS X (and perhaps other BSD-like systems) always
> aligns the output in columns, even with the -l flag.  Generally this
> results in a quick patch from me to remove some unneeded quotes.
> However, this time it's used in a more complex manner:
> 
> 	echo "SHA " \
> 	    "($(git ls-files|wc -l) entries, 0 subtrees)" >expect &&
> 	cmp_cache_tree expect

I'd solve it by moving the command substitution outside the quoted string:

 	printf "SHA (%d entries, 0 subtrees)\n" \
		$(git ls-files | wc -l) >expect &&

Other proposed solutions add another process. I don't like that on Windows ;)

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-14 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14 14:35 t0090-cache-tree fails due to wc whitespace Brian Gernhardt
2011-12-14 14:57 ` Stefano Lattarini
2011-12-14 15:09 ` Hallvard Breien Furuseth
2011-12-14 15:41 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2011-12-20  8:24   ` [PATCH] t0090: be prepared that 'wc -l' writes leading blanks Johannes Sixt
2011-12-20  9:17     ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-14 15:43 ` t0090-cache-tree fails due to wc whitespace Thomas Rast
2011-12-14 15:54   ` Andreas Schwab

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