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Re: [PATCH] t1301-shared-repo.sh: fix 'stat' portability issue

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 17, 2007, 23:37 UTC
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Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
> Don't know if this matters here, but a while ago I learnd that if I
> really need to parse output of ls -l, then I should set LANG=C and
> LC_ALL=C.  I didn't see any breakage when LS_COLORS is set, but maybe
> you want to reset that, too?

Yeah, I usually try to be defensive and I know LANG/LC_ALL matters if you want to parse "ls -l" for dates, but it should not matter for perm bits. If LS_COLORS is honoured when it is outputting to non-terminal (as in var=`ls`), it's severely broken, so...

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Message 5 of 5 in “t1301-shared-repo.sh: fix 'stat' portability issue”
  1. t1301-shared-repo.sh: fix 'stat' portability issueArjen Laarhoven, Aug 16, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 16, 2007
  3. Arjen LaarhovenAug 16, 2007
  4. Uwe Kleine-KönigAug 17, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 17, 2007

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