portability fixes for some tests
Apparently the ls on OS X 10.3.9 exits with success even if the file
given on the command line doesn't exist
adding a
diff -r 107ba6f817b5 -r 310ce7989cdc a
--- a/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 1970 +0000
+++ b/a Thu Jan 01 00:00:02 1970 +0000
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ confuse str.splitlines
confuse str.splitlines
embedded
newline
+clean diff