On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > b="$(cut -c1-7 "$g/HEAD" 2>/dev/null)..." || While you are here, you could turn this line into { b=$(< "$g/HEAD") && b=${b:0:7}...; } 2>/dev/null || to save a process. $(< foo) is a bash feature and does the same as $(cat foo), but faster. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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