Re: [PATCH] t5319: don't trip over a user name with whitespace

> On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 10:59:34PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 
>> Am 30.06.19 um 21:48 schrieb Eric Sunshine:
>>> On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 2:57 PM Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh b/t/t5319-multi-pack-index.sh
>>>> @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ test_expect_success 'repack with minimum size does not alter existing packs' '
>>>> -               MINSIZE=$(ls -l .git/objects/pack/*pack | awk "{print \$5;}" | sort -n | head -n 1) &&
>>>> +               MINSIZE=$(stat -c %s .git/objects/pack/*pack | sort -n | head -n 1) &&
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, this is not portable. While "stat -c %s" works on Linux
>>> and MSYS2, neither that option nor the format directive are recognized
>>> on BSD-like platforms (I tested Mac OS and FreeBSD), which instead
>>> need "stat -f %z".
>>
>> Ouch! I did notice that stat(1) is not in POSIX, but hoped that it was
>> sufficiently portable. I need a new idea...
> 
> If we are OK relying on rudimentary perl[1], then:
> 
>   perl -le "print((stat)[7]) for @ARGV"