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From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: wchargin@gmail.com, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] t/test-lib: make `test_dir_is_empty` more robust
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 01:23:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQSryjWrFZML_g0fR5oq6dzVaWPXm_4R-Jg_ay1R2DzbQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180805041956.GI258270@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 12:20 AM Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> William Chargin wrote:
> >  test_dir_is_empty () {
> >       test_path_is_dir "$1" &&
> > -     if test -n "$(ls -a1 "$1" | egrep -v '^\.\.?$')"
> > +     if test "$(ls -A1 "$1" | wc -c)" != 0
>
> Another portability gotcha: wc output includes a space on Mac so this
> test would always return true there.  How about
>
>         if test -n "$(ls -A1 "$1")"
>
> "ls -A" was added in POSIX.1-2017. [...]
> That's very recent, but the widespread implementation it mentions is
> less so.  This would be our first use of "ls -A", so I'd be interested
> to hear from people on more obscure platforms.  It does seem to be
> widespread.

A simpler approach, without the portability concerns of -A, would be
to remove the "." and ".." lines from the top of the listing:

    ls -f1 "$1" | sed '1,2d'

If we're worried about -f not being sufficiently portable, then an
even simpler approach would be to check whether the output of 'ls -a1'
has more lines than the two expected ("." and ".."):

    test $(ls -a1 "$1" | wc -l) -gt 2

I think I favor this final implementation over the others.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-05  5:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-05  2:20 [PATCH 0/1] t/test-lib: make `test_dir_is_empty` more robust William Chargin
2018-08-05  2:20 ` [PATCH 1/1] " William Chargin
2018-08-05  4:19   ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-05  5:23     ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2018-08-05 20:52       ` Jeff King
2018-08-06 13:02         ` Jeff King
2018-08-06 17:52           ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-12  4:06             ` [PATCH v3] test_dir_is_empty: properly detect files with newline in name William Chargin
2018-08-12  6:17               ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-12  6:32                 ` William Chargin
2018-08-12  6:44                   ` Eric Sunshine
2018-09-12 18:35                     ` [PATCH v4] test_dir_is_empty: fix edge cases with newlines and hyphens William Chargin
2018-09-12 19:50                       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-12 18:37                     ` William Chargin
2018-08-12  4:06             ` [PATCH 1/1] t/test-lib: make `test_dir_is_empty` more robust William Chargin
2018-08-05  5:24     ` William Chargin
2018-08-05  6:34       ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-05  6:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-05  6:23       ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-05  3:36 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-05  4:19   ` William Chargin
2018-08-05  4:20   ` [PATCH v2] " William Chargin
2018-08-05  8:34     ` Johannes Sixt

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