Subject: Re: t0090-cache-tree fails due to wc whitespace

From: Stefano Lattarini <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:57:26 +0100

On Wednesday 14 December 2011, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
> It's time for my periodic complaint:  People assuming `wc -l`
> outputs just a number.  wc on OS X (and perhaps other BSD-like
> systems) always aligns the output in columns, even with the -l
> flag.
>
It surely does so on Solaris 10 as well:

$ echo x | wc -l
       1
$ for i in {1..1000}; do echo x; done | wc -l
    1000

Regards,
  Stefano