"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > +files=$(git diff --name-only $V1 $V2 -- *.c) You'd want to quote that *.c from the shell, i.e. either one of these files=$(git diff --name-only $V1 $V2 -- \*.c) files=$(git diff --name-only $V1 $V2 -- '*.c') otherwise you'd lose things like "builtin/am.c", I'd think. > + > +for file in $files > +do I know this is only for running in _our_ source tree, and we do not have a source with $IFS in it, so I'd declare that this is OK. It would be good to document that assumption in red capital letters at the beginning of this loop, though ;-) # Note: this script is only for our codebase and we rely on # the fact that the pathnames of our source files do not # have any funny characters---letting the shell split $files # list at $IFS boundary is very much intentional, and not # quoting "$file" in the code below also is. Don't imitate # this in scripts that are meant to handle random end-user # repositories! for file in $files do ... > + git diff $V1 $V2 -- $file \ > + | diff_lines \ > + | sort >new_lines.txt I do not see a strong reason why we would want to limit $V1 and $V2 to branch names and raw commit object names, and quoting them in dq pair is a cheap fix to allow things like $ contrib/coverage-diff.sh master 'pu^{/^### match next}' so let's do so. Could you cut lines _after_ typing a pipe and omit backslashes, i.e. git diff "$V1" "$V2" -- $file | diff_lines | sort >new_lines.txt It seems to be personal taste whether to indent the second and subsequent lines; I do not care if you indent or if you align too much either way (but I have moderate perference to align). But I do not want to see people type unnecessary backslashes. This is not limited to just this pipeline but elsewhere in the script. > + if ! test -s new_lines.txt > + then > + continue > + fi > + > + hash_file=$(echo $file | sed "s/\//\#/") > + sed -ne '/#####:/{ > + s/ #####:// > + s/:.*// > + s/ //g > + p > + }' "$hash_file.gcov" \ > + | sort >uncovered_lines.txt > + > + comm -12 uncovered_lines.txt new_lines.txt \ > + | sed -e 's/$/\)/' \ > + | sed -e 's/^/\t/' \ Do you need two sed invocations for this, or would sed -e 's/$/\)/' -e '/^/ /' work as well? By the way """The meaning of an unescaped <backslash> immediately followed by any character other than '&', <backslash>, a digit, <newline>, or the delimiter character used for this command, is unspecified."""[*1*] so '\t' on the replacement side is a no-no in the portability department. Reference. *1* http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sed.html > + >uncovered_new_lines.txt > + > + grep -q '[^[:space:]]' < uncovered_new_lines.txt && \ Lose the backslash at the end. The shell knows that you haven't finished your sentence when it sees a line that ends with &&, || or a pipe |, so there is no need to tell it redundantly that you have more things to say with the backslash. > + echo $file && \ > + git blame -c $file \ > + | grep -f uncovered_new_lines.txt > + > + rm -f new_lines.txt uncovered_lines.txt uncovered_new_lines.txt > +done Near the begininng (like just before the "for file in $files" loop), you can probably have a trap to make sure these are removed upon exit, e.g. trap 'rm -f new_lines.txt uncovered_lines.txt uncovered_new_lines.txt' 0