Re: [PATCH] Use wc instead of awk to count subtrees in t0090-cache-tree

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> echo "dir" | /usr/xpg4/bin/awk -v c=0 '$1 {++c} END {print c}'
>>> 0
>>>
>>> And with GNU awk for comparison:
>>> echo "dir" | /opt/csw/gnu/awk -v c=0 '$1 {++c} END {print c}'
>>> 1
>>>
>>> Instead of modifying the awk code to work, use wc -w instead as that
>>> is both adequate and simpler.
>>
>> Hmm, why "wc -w" not "wc -l", though?  Is somebody squashing a
>> one-elem-per-line output from ls-files onto a single line?
>
> The old code was trying to skip empty lines.