Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] files: Return nothing if there are no files

[Andreas Grünbacher]

2014-02-11 Jean Delvare <address@hidden>:
> "quilt files" returns a blank line if no files are included in the
> patch. This could easily break constructs such as "quilt files | wc
> -l" or "if [ -z "$(quilt files)" ]". Let "quilt files" return nothing
> at all if there are no files in the patch.

[ -z "$(quilt files)" ] ignores leading/trailing whitespace so it
doesn't actually care.

How about getting rid of the echo?

- echo $(files_in_patch "$patch") |
+ files_in_patch "$patch" |

Andreas