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diff --git a/t/test-lib-functions.sh b/t/test-lib-functions.sh index 80daaca78..9096398b1 100644 --- a/t/test-lib-functions.sh +++ b/t/test-lib-functions.sh @@ -530,6 +530,27 @@ test_cmp() { $GIT_TEST_CMP "$@" } +# 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 + +test_seq () { + case $# in + 1) set 1 "$@" ;; + 2) ;; + *) error "bug in the test script: not 1 or 2 parameters to test_seq" ;; + esac + "$PERL_PATH" -le 'print for $ARGV[0]..$ARGV[1]' -- "$@" +} + # This function can be used to schedule some commands to be run # unconditionally at the end of the test to restore sanity: # |