Dennis Stosberg <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > These two tests assume that "sed" will not modify the final line of a > stream if it does not end with a newline character. The assumption is > not true at least for FreeBSD and Solaris 9. FreeBSD's "sed" appends > a newline character; "sed" in Solaris 9 even removes the incomplete > final line. Gaaah. > - 'mv file file1 && > - sed -e 1d -e "5s/3A/99/" file1 >file && > - rm -f file1 && > + 'perl -pi -e "s/^1A.*\n$//; s/^3A/99/" file && > GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="D" git commit -a -m "edit"' The first line in the original is removed while the perl version seems to just makes it empty -- ah, you remove the trailing LF as well there. I've never seen this done like this, but OK. It would have been more obvious if it were written like this: $_ = "" if ($. == 1); but probably it is just me. Thanks for the patch. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html