# [PATCH] t0060: fix whitespace in "wc -c" invocation

2 messages from 2009-03-23 to 2009-03-23. Participants: Jeff King, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18479

## Jeff King, 2009-03-23 06:22

Subject: [PATCH] t0060: fix whitespace in "wc -c" invocation
Message-ID: <20090323062229.GA5535@coredump.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090323062229.GA5535%40coredump.intra.peff.net

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Some platforms like to stick extra whitespace in the output
of "wc -c"; using the result without quotes gets the shell
to collapse the whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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On top of 'next'.

I noticed the breakage on Solaris; I suspect AIX is broken, too.

 t/t0060-path-utils.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t0060-path-utils.sh b/t/t0060-path-utils.sh
index 86000e2..53cf1f8 100755
--- a/t/t0060-path-utils.sh
+++ b/t/t0060-path-utils.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ norm_path() {
 # which means that the path / accounts for this many characters:
 rootoff=$(test-path-utils normalize_path_copy / | wc -c)
 # Account for the trailing LF:
-if test "$rootoff" = 2; then
+if test $rootoff = 2; then
 	rootoff=	# we are on Unix
 else
 	rootoff=$(($rootoff-1))
-- 
1.6.2.1.276.gd47fa

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## Junio C Hamano, 2009-03-23 08:11

Subject: Re: [PATCH] t0060: fix whitespace in "wc -c" invocation
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URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v1vso8xq2.fsf%40gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <20090323062229.GA5535@coredump.intra.peff.net>

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Thanks.

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