Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
> Stop promising that we may allow using "letters"; this would open an
> easier reimplementation that does not rely on $PERL, if somebody
> later wants to.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
And I am not the one who particularly wants to, but here is the
previous patch sent elsewhere in the thread.
-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] test-lib-functions.sh: rewrite test_seq without Perl
Rewrite the 'seq' imitation only with commands and features
that are typically found as built-in in modern POSIX shells,
instead of relying on Perl to run a single-liner.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
---
t/test-lib-functions.sh | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
index 39b8151..9734e32 100644
--- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh
@@ -679,7 +679,12 @@ 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
--
2.8.2-557-gee41d5e
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