Am 04.10.21 um 10:31 schrieb Jeff King:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 07:44:14PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:
>
>> b3dfeebb92 (rebase: avoid computing unnecessary patch IDs, 2016-07-29)
>> added a perf test that calls tac(1) from GNU core utilities. Support
>> systems without it by reversing the generated list using sort -nr
>> instead. sort(1) with options -n and -r is already used in other tests.
>
> Cute fix. With regular seq(1), this whole thing can become:
>
> seq 1000 -1 1
>
> without the extra process, but our test_seq doesn't understand non-1
> increments (nor comparisons besides -le). It wouldn't be that hard to
> teach it, but given that this is the first time we've wanted it, it may
> not be worth the effort.
Right. The original also allows "seq 1000 1", by the way. Not sure we
need that either.
But when you say "without the extra process", I think:
test_seq () {
set_step='END {step = first < last ? 1 : -1}'
loop='END {for (; first <= last && step > 0 || first >= last && step < 0; first += step) print first}'
case $# in
1) awk -v first=1 -v last="$1" "$set_step $loop" ;;
2) awk -v first="$1" -v last="$2" "$set_step $loop" ;;
3) awk -v first="$1" -v last="$3" -v step="$2" "$loop" ;;
*) BUG "not 1, 2, or 3 parameters to test_seq" ;;
esac </dev/null
}
;-)
René
