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Re: [PATCH] Fix use of wc in t0000-basic

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
May 21, 2005, 01:43 UTC
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>>>>> "DB" == Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

DB> Junio was stripping the filename (not whitespace) from wc, not knowing DB> that it could be suppressed by using stdin.

Actually the reason I did so initially was because I recalled seeing a wc that said "-" instead of omitting the filename. I do not have access to those obscure Unixen so I cannot these things easily anymore, though.

DB> of wc that put whitespace at the beginning. I think the DB> sed-only solution is far more obscure and no cleaner than DB> cat and wc.

This I tend to agree, but that is probably one of the most portable.

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