From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 10:53:30 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix use of wc in t0000-basic Message-ID: <7vhdgwj1ed.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: >>>>> "HX" == Herbert Xu writes: HX> It's also better to use -eq instead of = since you are comparing HX> numbers, not strings. If you do that you can keep the double HX> quotes since the spaces will be removed automatically. I remember being burned by busybox "test" which did not ignore spaces. I do not know if the latest one is fixed, though.