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

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HXHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date
May 21, 2005, 10:37 UTC
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
>
> -    'test "$(wc -l full-of-directories | sed -e "s/ .*//")" = 257'
> +    'test $(cat full-of-directories | wc -l) = 257'
You don't need the cat:
wc -l < full-of-directories
will do the same thing.

It's also better to use -eq instead of = since you are comparing numbers, not strings. If you do that you can keep the double quotes since the spaces will be removed automatically.

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