From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:59:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] t4211: demonstrate empty -L range crash
Message-ID: <20130723195902.GQ18565@goldbirke>
In-Reply-To: <7vvc416qvq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:03:05PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:
> > (Side question: the test suite is full with similar constructs, i.e.
> > redirecting file contents to stdin, but why not just use wc -l b.c,
> > i.e. let wc open the file?)
> 
> "wc -l <b.c" is the correct form for the purpose of these tests;
> otherwise you will see the filename in the output, and you need to
> somehow strip it if you are only interested in the line count.

Facepalm, that should have been obvious...