From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 19:31:19 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: t0021: compute file size with a single process instead of a pipeline
X-Git-Tag: v2.11.0-rc1~10^2
X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/ec2e8b3da21c884325c9764abc62251fcfbe6208

t0021: compute file size with a single process instead of a pipeline

Avoid unwanted coding patterns (prodigal use of pipelines), and in
particular a useless use of cat.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---

diff --git a/t/t0021-conversion.sh b/t/t0021-conversion.sh
index db71acacb3..cb72fa49de 100755
--- a/t/t0021-conversion.sh
+++ b/t/t0021-conversion.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ generate_random_characters () {
 }
 
 file_size () {
-	cat "$1" | wc -c | sed "s/^[ ]*//"
+	perl -e 'print -s $ARGV[0]' "$1"
 }
 
 filter_git () {