From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 01:13:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix use of wc in t0000-basic
Message-ID: <4616.10.10.10.24.1116637985.squirrel@linux1>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0505202109460.30848-100000@iabervon.org>

On Fri, May 20, 2005 9:10 pm, Daniel Barkalow said:
> 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