Re: [PATCH] Remove useless uses of cat, and replace with filename arguments or redirection

[Stephen Rothwell <git@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:34:59 -0700 Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> -commits=$(cat ../revs | wc -l | tr -d " ")
> +commits=$(wc -l ../revs | tr -d " ")

This is not equivalent, you probably wanted:

commits=$(wc -l <../revs | tr -d " ")

Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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