# [PATCH] Do not rely on a sane wc

1 messages from 2005-08-01 to 2005-08-01. Participants: Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/1392

## Johannes Schindelin, 2005-08-01 14:32

Subject: [PATCH] Do not rely on a sane wc
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.20050801163156.12985@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.58.20050801163156.12985%40wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Some implementations of wc pad the line number with white space, which
expr does not grok as a number.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
---

 git-format-patch-script |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

da0488e94f7f949cbfce7422980eb2fe38166b9a
diff --git a/git-format-patch-script b/git-format-patch-script
--- a/git-format-patch-script
+++ b/git-format-patch-script
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ _x40="$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x40$_x4
 stripCommitHead='/^'"$_x40"' (from '"$_x40"')$/d'

 git-rev-list --merge-order "$junio" "^$linus" >$series
-total=`wc -l <$series`
+total=`wc -l <$series | tr -dc "[0-9]"`
 i=$total
 while read commit
 do

```