On 6/6/07, Michael Poole <mdpoole@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Stephen Rothwell writes: > 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 " ") Which relevant version(s) of wc do not accept filename arguments? POSIX[1] seems to specify it. Or do you mean that there is some subtle difference in its processing of stdin vs specified files?
Josh is right. The output *is* different because it contains the filename as well. See $ wc < .gitk | tr -d " " 2177551 $ wc .gitk | tr -d " " 2177551.gitk cheers m - 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
