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-rw-r--r--t/test-lib-functions.sh21
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
index 8f8858a5f0..39b815163d 100644
--- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
@@ -665,20 +665,13 @@ 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