Re: [PATCH] Remove useless uses of cat, and replace with filename arguments or redirection

On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:34:59 -0700 Josh Triplett [off-list ref] wrote:

-commits=$(cat ../revs | wc -l | tr -d " ")
+commits=$(wc -l ../revs | tr -d " ")

This is not equivalent, you probably wanted:

commits=$(wc -l <../revs | tr -d " ")

Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell