Hi Torsten, On Sat, 9 Dec 2017, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > 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 Please suggest `test_line_count` instead. Ciao, Dscho