From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:02:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use wc instead of awk to count subtrees in t0090-cache-tree
Message-ID: <20141222220209.GT29365@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk31j8ik9.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com> writes:

>> echo "dir" | /usr/xpg4/bin/awk -v c=0 '$1 {++c} END {print c}'
>> 0
>>
>> And with GNU awk for comparison:
>> echo "dir" | /opt/csw/gnu/awk -v c=0 '$1 {++c} END {print c}'
>> 1
>>
>> Instead of modifying the awk code to work, use wc -w instead as that
>> is both adequate and simpler.
>
> Hmm, why "wc -w" not "wc -l", though?  Is somebody squashing a
> one-elem-per-line output from ls-files onto a single line?

The old code was trying to skip empty lines.