On 8 May 2016 at 20:20, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes:
>
>> May a simple
>> printf "1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n6\n7\n8\n9\n10\n"
>>
>> be an option ?
>
> If you were to do that, at least have the decency to make it more
> readable by doing something like:
>
> printf "%s\n" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
>
> ;-)
>
> But as I said, as a response to "t6044 broken on pu" bug report,
> s/seq/test_seq/ is the only sensible change.
>
> Improving "test_seq, the alternative to seq" is a separate topic.
>
> If you have aversion to $PERL, perhaps do them without using
> anything what is not expected to be built-in in modern shells,
> perhaps like this?
>
> t/test-lib-functions.sh | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> index 8d99eb3..4edddac 100644
> --- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> +++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
> @@ -739,7 +739,12 @@ test_seq () {
> 2) ;;
> *) error "bug in the test script: not 1 or 2 parameters to test_seq" ;;
> esac
> - perl -le 'print for $ARGV[0]..$ARGV[1]' -- "$@"
> + test_seq_counter__=$1
> + while test "$test_seq_counter__" -le $2
> + do
> + echo "$test_seq_counter__"
> + test_seq_counter__=$((test_seq_counter__ + 1))
> + done
> }
Is that perl snippet ever called with non-numeric output?
perl -le 'print for $ARGV[0]..$ARGV[1]' -- A E
A
B
C
D
E
Yves
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