Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Since the test is ultimately checking "can we run should-not-run from > the current directory", might it be simpler to actually try that as the > precondition? I.e., something like: > ... A nice egg of columbus. It also would save us from mischievous users who have should-not-run somewhere no the $PATH that outputs the string we expect (no, I do not think it is a common thing to do; I am just saying that the solution covers such an extremely stupid case without special casing).