From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:57:26 GMT
Subject: Re: t0090-cache-tree fails due to wc whitespace
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:
> 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