1 file changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tests/t0303-robustness.sh b/tests/t0303-robustness.sh
index 365c968..7f05dcc 100755
--- a/tests/t0303-robustness.sh
+++ b/tests/t0303-robustness.sh
@@ -743,15 +743,17 @@ test_expect_success 'the about redirect encodes the repository url once' '
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'a symlink whose target is a large blob is listed without it' '
-	big=$(head -c 5000 /dev/zero | tr "\0" a | git -C repos/rob hash-object -w --stdin) &&
+	printf "%05000d" 0 | tr 0 a >big-target &&
+	big=$(git -C repos/rob hash-object -w --stdin <big-target) &&
+	test $(git -C repos/rob cat-file -s $big) = 5000 &&
 	(
 		cd repos/rob &&
 		git update-index --add --cacheinfo 120000,$big,biglink &&
 		git commit -m biglink
 	) &&
-	cgit_rc robrc "url=rob/tree/" >tmp &&
-	grep "biglink" tmp &&
-	! grep "aaaaaaaaaa" tmp
+	cgit_ok robrc "url=rob/tree/" >tmp &&
+	test_grep "<tr class=.link.>.*>biglink</a></td><td class=.ls-size.>5000<" tmp &&
+	test_grep ! "aaaaaaaaaa" tmp
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'a chain of single directories is followed a bounded number of levels' '