On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 04:33:12PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Jeff Hostetler wrote: > >I'm looking at t5616 now on my mac. > >Looks like the MAC doesn't like my line counting in the tests. > >I'll fix in my next version. > [] > | sort >expect_2.oids && > - test "$(wc -l <expect_2.oids)" = "8" && > + test_line_count = 8 expect_2.oids && > git -C src blame master -- file.1.txt >expect.blame > ' The problem seems to be the '"' around wc, this would work: test $(wc -l <expect_2.oids) = "8" && What do you guys think a about a lint test like this: diff --git a/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl b/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl index 03dc9d2852..9ebf65c26f 100755 --- a/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl +++ b/t/check-non-portable-shell.pl @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ while (<>) { /^\s*declare\s+/ and err 'arrays/declare not portable'; /^\s*[^#]\s*which\s/ and err 'which is not portable (please use type)'; /\btest\s+[^=]*==/ and err '"test a == b" is not portable (please use =)'; + /\bwc -l.*"\s*=/ and err '`"$(wc -l)"` is not portable, please use `$(wc -l)`'; /\bexport\s+[A-Za-z0-9_]*=/ and err '"export FOO=bar" is not portable (please use FOO=bar && expo