Junio C Hamano wrote:
> A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> The tail command on my system complains:
>>
>> tail: cannot open `8192' for reading: No such file or directory
>>
>> if there is any whitespace between the '-c' option and the byte count.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: A Large Angry SCM <Gitzilla@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> t/t5302-pack-index.sh | 2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/t/t5302-pack-index.sh b/t/t5302-pack-index.sh
>> index 232e5f1..b7870a8 100755
>> --- a/t/t5302-pack-index.sh
>> +++ b/t/t5302-pack-index.sh
>> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ test_expect_success \
>> test-genrandom "$i" 8192 >>file_$i &&
>> git-update-index --add file_$i || return 1
>> done &&
>> - echo 101 >file_101 && tail -c 8192 file_100 >>file_101 &&
>> + echo 101 >file_101 && tail -c8192 file_100 >>file_101 &&
>> git-update-index --add file_101 &&
>> tree=`git-write-tree` &&
>> commit=`git-commit-tree $tree </dev/null` && {
>
> I do not like using tail to do a byte-oriented thing like this
> to begin with. How about using the plain old trustworthy and
> portable program, "dd", instead?
It's not as easy to get the last X bytes of a file with dd.
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