On 12/8/2021 1:36 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 10:23 AM Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 12/8/2021 12:04 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: >>> >>> This actually looks quite nice, though the magic '16' is kind of >>> annoying. Could we get rid of that -- perhaps using something to rip >>> out the diff header, or using comm instead? >> >> What I really want is "remove the first two lines of this file" > > Is `tail -n +3` portable? Looks like we have five uses of tail -n +N > in the testsuite, so it should be okay to use. Ah, that's the magic incantation. Sounds good. >> but perhaps "tail -n $(wc -l expect)" would suffice to avoid a >> magic number? > > That works too. If the "-n +X" syntax works, then I'll opt for that. Thanks!
