Better ls output fixing.

[exim.git] / test / runtest

diff --git a/test/runtest b/test/runtest
index c199539a54e41ccd785fff9efa0da5113dc21840..69c6931b082c013f96e4b705c9710784d95e7219 100755 (executable)
--- a/test/runtest
+++ b/test/runtest
@@ -598,7 +598,9 @@ RESET_AFTER_EXTRA_LINE_READ:
   # Handle only the Gnu and MacOS space, dot, plus and at-sign.  A full [[:graph:]]
   # unfortunately matches a non-ls linefull of dashes.
   # Allow the case where we've already picked out the file protection bits.
-  s/^([-d](?:[-r][-w][-SsTtx]){3})[.+@]?( +|$)/\1 /;
+  if (s/^([-d](?:[-r][-w][-SsTtx]){3})[.+@]?( +|$)/\1\2/) {
+    s/ +/ /g;
+  }
 
 
   # ======== Message sizes =========