From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 01:43:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix use of wc in t0000-basic Message-ID: <7vzmuppd4y.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: >>>>> "DB" == Daniel Barkalow 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.