Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Replace @SIZECMD@ with POSIX-compatible command

On 20/03/17 12:55, Drew DeVault wrote:

Now uses wc -c $file | cut -d' ' -f1, which works using only POSIX commands and removes the need for any platform-specific usages.

I'm sure we had this in the past and changed to what we have currently. Can't remember why... compressing filesystems maybe? A