Re: [PATCH] Fix tail option problem in test
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:06
A Large Angry SCM [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk
The tail command on my system complains: tail: cannot open `8192' for reading: No such file or directory if there is any whitespace between the '-c' option and the byte count. Signed-off-by: A Large Angry SCM <redacted> --- t/t5302-pack-index.sh | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)diff --git a/t/t5302-pack-index.sh b/t/t5302-pack-index.sh index 232e5f1..b7870a8 100755 --- a/t/t5302-pack-index.sh +++ b/t/t5302-pack-index.sh@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ test_expect_success \ test-genrandom "$i" 8192 >>file_$i && git-update-index --add file_$i || return 1 done && - echo 101 >file_101 && tail -c 8192 file_100 >>file_101 && + echo 101 >file_101 && tail -c8192 file_100 >>file_101 && git-update-index --add file_101 && tree=`git-write-tree` && commit=`git-commit-tree $tree </dev/null` && {
I do not like using tail to do a byte-oriented thing like this to begin with. How about using the plain old trustworthy and portable program, "dd", instead?