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Re: [PATCH] Fix use of wc in t0000-basic

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Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date
May 21, 2005, 01:13 UTC
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On Fri, May 20, 2005 9:10 pm, Daniel Barkalow said:
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> On Fri, 20 May 2005, Sean wrote:
>
>> You can't do "wc -l filename" because some versionso of "wc" then
>> include
>> the filename in their output and confuse things.   That was the reason
>> to
>> use "cat" in the first place.
>
> You're reading my patch backwards.
>

Yes, i was. But presumably someone was stripping the whitespace from wc for a reason? Either way the sed-only solution seems a little cleaner.

Sean
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