Re: [PATCH] Fix tail option problem in test

A Large Angry SCM [off-list ref] writes:

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?

Junio C Hamano wrote:

A Large Angry SCM [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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?

It's not as easy to get the last X bytes of a file with dd.