On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 09:07:32AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I was going to suggest that you could accomplish this more easily
> > directly in shell (without employing `awk`):
> >
> > {
> > echo start &&
> > printf "create refs/heads/branch-%d HEAD\n" $(test_seq 0 9999) &&
> > echo commit
> > } >input &&
> >
> > but then I realized that that could potentially run afoul of
> > command-line length limit on some platform due to the 0-9999 sequence.
>
> As xargs is supposed to know the system limit, perhaps
>
> test_seq 0 9999 | xargs printf "...%d...\n"
>
> should work?
Is there a reason why we want to avoid using awk(1) in the first place?
We use it in several other tests and I don't think that the resulting
code is all that bad.
Patrick
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