Re: [RCS 5.9.3 on MacOS/X] test t805 fails

() Christian Wagner <[email protected]>
() Thu, 6 Nov 2014 12:20:29 +0000

   Here is the diff output showing what's required to have it pass:
   58c58
   <     yes | head -${n}c > $w
   ---
   >     yes | tr -d '\n' | head -c ${n} > $w

   As you can see, 'head' and 'yes' have to be called differently on Yosemite.

IIUC "head -c" is not POSIX and "yes" is not in the list of
POSIX utilities:

 http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html

so a better fix might be to replace the command completely.  Hmmm.

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