Am 12/14/2011 15:35, schrieb Brian Gernhardt: > It's time for my periodic complaint: People assuming `wc -l` outputs > just a number. wc on OS X (and perhaps other BSD-like systems) always > aligns the output in columns, even with the -l flag. Generally this > results in a quick patch from me to remove some unneeded quotes. > However, this time it's used in a more complex manner: > > echo "SHA " \ > "($(git ls-files|wc -l) entries, 0 subtrees)" >expect && > cmp_cache_tree expect I'd solve it by moving the command substitution outside the quoted string: printf "SHA (%d entries, 0 subtrees)\n" \ $(git ls-files | wc -l) >expect && Other proposed solutions add another process. I don't like that on Windows ;) -- 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