The printf builtin "%(fmt)T" specifier (which allows time values
to use strftime-like formatting) is introduced in bash 4.2.
Trying to execute this in pre-4.2 bash will fail -- and if this
happens execute the fallback piece of perl code to do the same thing.
---
test/test-lib.sh | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh
index 78af170..a1c0f27 100644
--- a/test/test-lib.sh
+++ b/test/test-lib.sh
@@ -374,8 +374,12 @@ generate_message ()
# we use decreasing timestamps here for historical reasons;
# the existing test suite when we converted to unique timestamps just
# happened to have signicantly fewer failures with that choice.
- template[date]=$(TZ=UTC printf "%(%a, %d %b %Y %T %z)T\n" \
- $((978709437 - gen_msg_cnt)))
+ local date_secs=$((978709437 - gen_msg_cnt))
+ # printf %(..)T is bash 4.2+ feature. use perl fallback if needed...
+ TZ=UTC printf -v template[date] "%(%a, %d %b %Y %T %z)T" $date_secs
2>/dev/null ||
+ template[date]=`perl -le 'use POSIX "strftime";
+ @time = gmtime '"$date_secs"';
+ print strftime "%a, %d %b %Y %T +0000", @time'`
fi
additional_headers=""
--
1.8.0
