SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > You could avoid the 'cat' here and patch in 4/5 by doing $(wc -l <b.c). Correct. > (Side question: the test suite is full with similar constructs, i.e. > redirecting file contents to stdin, but why not just use wc -l b.c, > i.e. let wc open the file?) "wc -l <b.c" is the correct form for the purpose of these tests; otherwise you will see the filename in the output, and you need to somehow strip it if you are only interested in the line count. -- 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