On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 12:02:45PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > I had that thought, too, but I think it would be an error to do so. > > test_seq is supposed to be a replacement for "seq", which does not > > understand non-numeric sequences. > > Although, the comment block just above test_seq() in > test-lib-functions.sh says otherwise: > > Print a sequence of numbers or letters in increasing order. This > is similar to GNU seq(1), but the latter might not be available > everywhere (and does not do letters). It may be used like: > > for i in $(test_seq 100) > do > for j in $(test_seq 10 20) > do > for k in $(test_seq a z) > do > echo $i-$j-$k > done > done > done Oh, indeed. I apparently even Acked that documentation once upon a time. :-/ Anyway, I double-checked my earlier "grep" and I do not think anybody is using that functionality. So I think we'd be OK to change it as long as we updated the documentation to match. I don't really care either way whether it is replaced or not (at one point there were some people really interested in NO_PERL not even using one-liners in the test suite, but I am not one of them). -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html