From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:42:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Remove useless uses of cat, and replace with filename arguments or redirection
Message-ID: <46a038f90706080342j3a5bb7abv58c78d7b532e29de@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706070506230.4046@racer.site>

On 6/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Things like that are known to happen, and that's why "wc -l < file" is a
> better fix than "wc -l file | tr -dc 0-9". In this case, it might not
> matter for a long time, but why not stop being sloppy here and now?

Not sure if I'd call is sloppy, but I also prefer wc -l < file -- it's
definitely safer.

cheers,


m