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Re: t0090-cache-tree fails due to wc whitespace

From
Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 14, 2011, 14:57 UTC
Message-ID
<201112141557.26794.stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<7F1792D2-8ED4-4546-8ED4-52B95E0AE9FC@silverinsanity.com>
On Wednesday 14 December 2011, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
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> 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.
>
It surely does so on Solaris 10 as well:
$ echo x | wc -l
       1
$ for i in {1..1000}; do echo x; done | wc -l
    1000
Regards,
  Stefano
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  1. Brian GernhardtDec 14, 2011
  2. Stefano LattariniDec 14, 2011
  3. Hallvard Breien FurusethDec 14, 2011
  4. Johannes SixtDec 14, 2011
  5. t0090: be prepared that 'wc -l' writes leading blanksJohannes Sixt, Dec 20, 2011
  6. Thomas RastDec 20, 2011
  7. Thomas RastDec 14, 2011
  8. Andreas SchwabDec 14, 2011

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