From: Johannes Sixt Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:29:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests: grep portability fixes Message-ID: <48E1FF6D.1050907@viscovery.net> In-Reply-To: <48E1FB76.1040500@op5.se> Andreas Ericsson schrieb: > Jeff King wrote: >> - if ! grep -qe "Invalid gitfile format" .err >> + if ! grep "Invalid gitfile format" .err > > Doesn't output need to be redirected when you drop '-q'? In standard mode, the test output is directed to /dev/null anyway, and in verbose mode the extra output doesn't hurt at all, and is usually useful because you know that a pattern matched. -- Hannes