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Diffstat (limited to 't/test-lib-functions.sh')
| -rw-r--r-- | t/test-lib-functions.sh | 28 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh index 8d99eb303f..3978fc0b45 100644 --- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh +++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh @@ -718,20 +718,13 @@ test_cmp_rev () { test_cmp expect.rev actual.rev } -# 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 +# Print a sequence of integers in increasing order, either with +# two arguments (start and end): +# +# test_seq 1 5 -- outputs 1 2 3 4 5 one line at a time +# +# or with one argument (end), in which case it starts counting +# from 1. test_seq () { case $# in @@ -739,7 +732,12 @@ 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 } # This function can be used to schedule some commands to be run |