1# Library of functions shared by all tests scripts, included by 2# test-lib.sh. 3# 4# Copyright (c) 2005 Junio C Hamano 5# 6# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 7# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 8# the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or 9# (at your option) any later version. 10# 11# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 12# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 13# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 14# GNU General Public License for more details. 15# 16# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 17# along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ . 18 19# The semantics of the editor variables are that of invoking 20# sh -c "$EDITOR \"$@\"" files ... 21# 22# If our trash directory contains shell metacharacters, they will be 23# interpreted if we just set $EDITOR directly, so do a little dance with 24# environment variables to work around this. 25# 26# In particular, quoting isn't enough, as the path may contain the same quote 27# that we're using. 28test_set_editor () { 29 FAKE_EDITOR="$1" 30export FAKE_EDITOR 31 EDITOR='"$FAKE_EDITOR"' 32export EDITOR 33} 34 35test_set_index_version () { 36 GIT_INDEX_VERSION="$1" 37export GIT_INDEX_VERSION 38} 39 40test_decode_color () { 41awk' 42 function name(n) { 43 if (n == 0) return "RESET"; 44 if (n == 1) return "BOLD"; 45 if (n == 30) return "BLACK"; 46 if (n == 31) return "RED"; 47 if (n == 32) return "GREEN"; 48 if (n == 33) return "YELLOW"; 49 if (n == 34) return "BLUE"; 50 if (n == 35) return "MAGENTA"; 51 if (n == 36) return "CYAN"; 52 if (n == 37) return "WHITE"; 53 if (n == 40) return "BLACK"; 54 if (n == 41) return "BRED"; 55 if (n == 42) return "BGREEN"; 56 if (n == 43) return "BYELLOW"; 57 if (n == 44) return "BBLUE"; 58 if (n == 45) return "BMAGENTA"; 59 if (n == 46) return "BCYAN"; 60 if (n == 47) return "BWHITE"; 61 } 62 { 63 while (match($0, /\033\[[0-9;]*m/) != 0) { 64 printf "%s<", substr($0, 1, RSTART-1); 65 codes = substr($0, RSTART+2, RLENGTH-3); 66 if (length(codes) == 0) 67 printf "%s", name(0) 68 else { 69 n = split(codes, ary, ";"); 70 sep = ""; 71 for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) { 72 printf "%s%s", sep, name(ary[i]); 73 sep = ";" 74 } 75 } 76 printf ">"; 77$0= substr($0, RSTART + RLENGTH, length($0) - RSTART - RLENGTH + 1); 78 } 79 print 80 } 81 ' 82} 83 84nul_to_q () { 85 perl -pe'y/\000/Q/' 86} 87 88q_to_nul () { 89 perl -pe'y/Q/\000/' 90} 91 92q_to_cr () { 93tr Q '\015' 94} 95 96q_to_tab () { 97tr Q '\011' 98} 99 100qz_to_tab_space () { 101tr QZ '\011\040' 102} 103 104append_cr () { 105sed-e's/$/Q/'|tr Q '\015' 106} 107 108remove_cr () { 109tr'\015' Q |sed-e's/Q$//' 110} 111 112# In some bourne shell implementations, the "unset" builtin returns 113# nonzero status when a variable to be unset was not set in the first 114# place. 115# 116# Use sane_unset when that should not be considered an error. 117 118sane_unset () { 119unset"$@" 120return0 121} 122 123test_tick () { 124iftest -z"${test_tick+set}" 125then 126 test_tick=1112911993 127else 128 test_tick=$(($test_tick + 60)) 129fi 130 GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$test_tick-0700" 131 GIT_AUTHOR_DATE="$test_tick-0700" 132export GIT_COMMITTER_DATE GIT_AUTHOR_DATE 133} 134 135# Stop execution and start a shell. This is useful for debugging tests and 136# only makes sense together with "-v". 137# 138# Be sure to remove all invocations of this command before submitting. 139 140test_pause () { 141iftest"$verbose"= t;then 142"$SHELL_PATH"<&6>&3 2>&4 143else 144 error >&5"test_pause requires --verbose" 145fi 146} 147 148# Call test_commit with the arguments "<message> [<file> [<contents> [<tag>]]]" 149# 150# This will commit a file with the given contents and the given commit 151# message, and tag the resulting commit with the given tag name. 152# 153# <file>, <contents>, and <tag> all default to <message>. 154 155test_commit () { 156 notick= && 157 signoff= && 158whiletest$#!=0 159do 160case"$1"in 161--notick) 162 notick=yes 163;; 164--signoff) 165 signoff="$1" 166;; 167*) 168break 169;; 170esac 171shift 172done&& 173file=${2:-"$1.t"}&& 174echo"${3-$1}">"$file"&& 175 git add "$file"&& 176iftest -z"$notick" 177then 178 test_tick 179fi&& 180 git commit $signoff-m"$1"&& 181 git tag "${4:-$1}" 182} 183 184# Call test_merge with the arguments "<message> <commit>", where <commit> 185# can be a tag pointing to the commit-to-merge. 186 187test_merge () { 188 test_tick && 189 git merge -m"$1""$2"&& 190 git tag "$1" 191} 192 193# This function helps systems where core.filemode=false is set. 194# Use it instead of plain 'chmod +x' to set or unset the executable bit 195# of a file in the working directory and add it to the index. 196 197test_chmod () { 198chmod"$@"&& 199 git update-index --add"--chmod=$@" 200} 201 202# Unset a configuration variable, but don't fail if it doesn't exist. 203test_unconfig () { 204 git config --unset-all"$@" 205 config_status=$? 206case"$config_status"in 2075)# ok, nothing to unset 208 config_status=0 209;; 210esac 211return$config_status 212} 213 214# Set git config, automatically unsetting it after the test is over. 215test_config () { 216 test_when_finished "test_unconfig '$1'"&& 217 git config "$@" 218} 219 220test_config_global () { 221 test_when_finished "test_unconfig --global '$1'"&& 222 git config --global"$@" 223} 224 225write_script () { 226{ 227echo"#!${2-"$SHELL_PATH"}"&& 228cat 229} >"$1"&& 230chmod+x "$1" 231} 232 233# Use test_set_prereq to tell that a particular prerequisite is available. 234# The prerequisite can later be checked for in two ways: 235# 236# - Explicitly using test_have_prereq. 237# 238# - Implicitly by specifying the prerequisite tag in the calls to 239# test_expect_{success,failure,code}. 240# 241# The single parameter is the prerequisite tag (a simple word, in all 242# capital letters by convention). 243 244test_set_prereq () { 245 satisfied_prereq="$satisfied_prereq$1" 246} 247satisfied_prereq=" " 248lazily_testable_prereq= lazily_tested_prereq= 249 250# Usage: test_lazy_prereq PREREQ 'script' 251test_lazy_prereq () { 252 lazily_testable_prereq="$lazily_testable_prereq$1" 253eval test_prereq_lazily_$1=\$2 254} 255 256test_run_lazy_prereq_ () { 257script=' 258mkdir -p "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" && 259( 260 cd "$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" &&'"$2"' 261)' 262 say >&3"checking prerequisite:$1" 263 say >&3"$script" 264 test_eval_ "$script" 265 eval_ret=$? 266rm-rf"$TRASH_DIRECTORY/prereq-test-dir" 267iftest"$eval_ret"=0;then 268 say >&3"prerequisite$1ok" 269else 270 say >&3"prerequisite$1not satisfied" 271fi 272return$eval_ret 273} 274 275test_have_prereq () { 276# prerequisites can be concatenated with ',' 277 save_IFS=$IFS 278 IFS=, 279set -- $* 280 IFS=$save_IFS 281 282 total_prereq=0 283 ok_prereq=0 284 missing_prereq= 285 286for prerequisite 287do 288case"$prerequisite"in 289!*) 290 negative_prereq=t 291 prerequisite=${prerequisite#!} 292;; 293*) 294 negative_prereq= 295esac 296 297case"$lazily_tested_prereq"in 298*"$prerequisite"*) 299;; 300*) 301case"$lazily_testable_prereq"in 302*"$prerequisite"*) 303eval"script=\$test_prereq_lazily_$prerequisite"&& 304if test_run_lazy_prereq_ "$prerequisite""$script" 305then 306 test_set_prereq $prerequisite 307fi 308 lazily_tested_prereq="$lazily_tested_prereq$prerequisite" 309esac 310;; 311esac 312 313 total_prereq=$(($total_prereq + 1)) 314case"$satisfied_prereq"in 315*"$prerequisite"*) 316 satisfied_this_prereq=t 317;; 318*) 319 satisfied_this_prereq= 320esac 321 322case"$satisfied_this_prereq,$negative_prereq"in 323 t,|,t) 324 ok_prereq=$(($ok_prereq + 1)) 325;; 326*) 327# Keep a list of missing prerequisites; restore 328# the negative marker if necessary. 329 prerequisite=${negative_prereq:+!}$prerequisite 330iftest -z"$missing_prereq" 331then 332 missing_prereq=$prerequisite 333else 334 missing_prereq="$prerequisite,$missing_prereq" 335fi 336esac 337done 338 339test$total_prereq=$ok_prereq 340} 341 342test_declared_prereq () { 343case",$test_prereq,"in 344*,$1,*) 345return0 346;; 347esac 348return1 349} 350 351test_expect_failure () { 352 test_start_ 353test"$#"=3&& { test_prereq=$1;shift; } || test_prereq= 354test"$#"=2|| 355 error "bug in the test script: not 2 or 3 parameters to test-expect-failure" 356export test_prereq 357if! test_skip "$@" 358then 359 say >&3"checking known breakage:$2" 360if test_run_ "$2" expecting_failure 361then 362 test_known_broken_ok_ "$1" 363else 364 test_known_broken_failure_ "$1" 365fi 366fi 367 test_finish_ 368} 369 370test_expect_success () { 371 test_start_ 372test"$#"=3&& { test_prereq=$1;shift; } || test_prereq= 373test"$#"=2|| 374 error "bug in the test script: not 2 or 3 parameters to test-expect-success" 375export test_prereq 376if! test_skip "$@" 377then 378 say >&3"expecting success:$2" 379if test_run_ "$2" 380then 381 test_ok_ "$1" 382else 383 test_failure_ "$@" 384fi 385fi 386 test_finish_ 387} 388 389# test_external runs external test scripts that provide continuous 390# test output about their progress, and succeeds/fails on 391# zero/non-zero exit code. It outputs the test output on stdout even 392# in non-verbose mode, and announces the external script with "# run 393# <n>: ..." before running it. When providing relative paths, keep in 394# mind that all scripts run in "trash directory". 395# Usage: test_external description command arguments... 396# Example: test_external 'Perl API' perl ../path/to/test.pl 397test_external () { 398test"$#"=4&& { test_prereq=$1;shift; } || test_prereq= 399test"$#"=3|| 400 error >&5"bug in the test script: not 3 or 4 parameters to test_external" 401 descr="$1" 402shift 403export test_prereq 404if! test_skip "$descr""$@" 405then 406# Announce the script to reduce confusion about the 407# test output that follows. 408 say_color """# run$test_count:$descr($*)" 409# Export TEST_DIRECTORY, TRASH_DIRECTORY and GIT_TEST_LONG 410# to be able to use them in script 411export TEST_DIRECTORY TRASH_DIRECTORY GIT_TEST_LONG 412# Run command; redirect its stderr to &4 as in 413# test_run_, but keep its stdout on our stdout even in 414# non-verbose mode. 415"$@"2>&4 416iftest"$?"=0 417then 418iftest$test_external_has_tap-eq0;then 419 test_ok_ "$descr" 420else 421 say_color """# test_external test$descrwas ok" 422 test_success=$(($test_success + 1)) 423fi 424else 425iftest$test_external_has_tap-eq0;then 426 test_failure_ "$descr""$@" 427else 428 say_color error "# test_external test$descrfailed: $@" 429 test_failure=$(($test_failure + 1)) 430fi 431fi 432fi 433} 434 435# Like test_external, but in addition tests that the command generated 436# no output on stderr. 437test_external_without_stderr () { 438# The temporary file has no (and must have no) security 439# implications. 440 tmp=${TMPDIR:-/tmp} 441 stderr="$tmp/git-external-stderr.$$.tmp" 442 test_external "$@"4>"$stderr" 443test -f"$stderr"|| error "Internal error:$stderrdisappeared." 444 descr="no stderr:$1" 445shift 446 say >&3"# expecting no stderr from previous command" 447iftest!-s"$stderr" 448then 449rm"$stderr" 450 451iftest$test_external_has_tap-eq0;then 452 test_ok_ "$descr" 453else 454 say_color """# test_external_without_stderr test$descrwas ok" 455 test_success=$(($test_success + 1)) 456fi 457else 458iftest"$verbose"= t 459then 460 output=$(echo; echo "# Stderr is:"; cat "$stderr") 461else 462 output= 463fi 464# rm first in case test_failure exits. 465rm"$stderr" 466iftest$test_external_has_tap-eq0;then 467 test_failure_ "$descr""$@""$output" 468else 469 say_color error "# test_external_without_stderr test$descrfailed: $@:$output" 470 test_failure=$(($test_failure + 1)) 471fi 472fi 473} 474 475# debugging-friendly alternatives to "test [-f|-d|-e]" 476# The commands test the existence or non-existence of $1. $2 can be 477# given to provide a more precise diagnosis. 478test_path_is_file () { 479if!test -f"$1" 480then 481echo"File$1doesn't exist. $*" 482 false 483fi 484} 485 486test_path_is_dir () { 487if!test -d"$1" 488then 489echo"Directory$1doesn't exist. $*" 490 false 491fi 492} 493 494# Check if the directory exists and is empty as expected, barf otherwise. 495test_dir_is_empty () { 496 test_path_is_dir "$1"&& 497iftest -n"$(ls -a1 "$1" | egrep -v '^\.\.?$')" 498then 499echo"Directory '$1' is not empty, it contains:" 500ls-la"$1" 501return1 502fi 503} 504 505test_path_is_missing () { 506iftest -e"$1" 507then 508echo"Path exists:" 509ls-ld"$1" 510iftest$#-ge1 511then 512echo"$*" 513fi 514 false 515fi 516} 517 518# test_line_count checks that a file has the number of lines it 519# ought to. For example: 520# 521# test_expect_success 'produce exactly one line of output' ' 522# do something >output && 523# test_line_count = 1 output 524# ' 525# 526# is like "test $(wc -l <output) = 1" except that it passes the 527# output through when the number of lines is wrong. 528 529test_line_count () { 530iftest$#!=3 531then 532 error "bug in the test script: not 3 parameters to test_line_count" 533elif!test$(wc -l <"$3")"$1""$2" 534then 535echo"test_line_count: line count for$3!$1$2" 536cat"$3" 537return1 538fi 539} 540 541# This is not among top-level (test_expect_success | test_expect_failure) 542# but is a prefix that can be used in the test script, like: 543# 544# test_expect_success 'complain and die' ' 545# do something && 546# do something else && 547# test_must_fail git checkout ../outerspace 548# ' 549# 550# Writing this as "! git checkout ../outerspace" is wrong, because 551# the failure could be due to a segv. We want a controlled failure. 552 553test_must_fail () { 554"$@" 555 exit_code=$? 556iftest$exit_code=0;then 557echo>&2"test_must_fail: command succeeded: $*" 558return1 559eliftest$exit_code-gt129&&test$exit_code-le192;then 560echo>&2"test_must_fail: died by signal: $*" 561return1 562eliftest$exit_code=127;then 563echo>&2"test_must_fail: command not found: $*" 564return1 565eliftest$exit_code=126;then 566echo>&2"test_must_fail: valgrind error: $*" 567return1 568fi 569return0 570} 571 572# Similar to test_must_fail, but tolerates success, too. This is 573# meant to be used in contexts like: 574# 575# test_expect_success 'some command works without configuration' ' 576# test_might_fail git config --unset all.configuration && 577# do something 578# ' 579# 580# Writing "git config --unset all.configuration || :" would be wrong, 581# because we want to notice if it fails due to segv. 582 583test_might_fail () { 584"$@" 585 exit_code=$? 586iftest$exit_code-gt129&&test$exit_code-le192;then 587echo>&2"test_might_fail: died by signal: $*" 588return1 589eliftest$exit_code=127;then 590echo>&2"test_might_fail: command not found: $*" 591return1 592fi 593return0 594} 595 596# Similar to test_must_fail and test_might_fail, but check that a 597# given command exited with a given exit code. Meant to be used as: 598# 599# test_expect_success 'Merge with d/f conflicts' ' 600# test_expect_code 1 git merge "merge msg" B master 601# ' 602 603test_expect_code () { 604 want_code=$1 605shift 606"$@" 607 exit_code=$? 608iftest$exit_code=$want_code 609then 610return0 611fi 612 613echo>&2"test_expect_code: command exited with$exit_code, we wanted$want_code$*" 614return1 615} 616 617# test_cmp is a helper function to compare actual and expected output. 618# You can use it like: 619# 620# test_expect_success 'foo works' ' 621# echo expected >expected && 622# foo >actual && 623# test_cmp expected actual 624# ' 625# 626# This could be written as either "cmp" or "diff -u", but: 627# - cmp's output is not nearly as easy to read as diff -u 628# - not all diff versions understand "-u" 629 630test_cmp() { 631$GIT_TEST_CMP"$@" 632} 633 634# test_cmp_bin - helper to compare binary files 635 636test_cmp_bin() { 637cmp"$@" 638} 639 640# Call any command "$@" but be more verbose about its 641# failure. This is handy for commands like "test" which do 642# not output anything when they fail. 643verbose () { 644"$@"&&return0 645echo>&2"command failed:$(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$@")" 646return1 647} 648 649# Check if the file expected to be empty is indeed empty, and barfs 650# otherwise. 651 652test_must_be_empty () { 653iftest -s"$1" 654then 655echo"'$1' is not empty, it contains:" 656cat"$1" 657return1 658fi 659} 660 661# Tests that its two parameters refer to the same revision 662test_cmp_rev () { 663 git rev-parse --verify"$1">expect.rev&& 664 git rev-parse --verify"$2">actual.rev&& 665 test_cmp expect.rev actual.rev 666} 667 668# Print a sequence of numbers or letters in increasing order. This is 669# similar to GNU seq(1), but the latter might not be available 670# everywhere (and does not do letters). It may be used like: 671# 672# for i in $(test_seq 100) 673# do 674# for j in $(test_seq 10 20) 675# do 676# for k in $(test_seq a z) 677# do 678# echo $i-$j-$k 679# done 680# done 681# done 682 683test_seq () { 684case$#in 6851)set1"$@";; 6862) ;; 687*) error "bug in the test script: not 1 or 2 parameters to test_seq";; 688esac 689 perl -le'print for$ARGV[0]..$ARGV[1]'--"$@" 690} 691 692# This function can be used to schedule some commands to be run 693# unconditionally at the end of the test to restore sanity: 694# 695# test_expect_success 'test core.capslock' ' 696# git config core.capslock true && 697# test_when_finished "git config --unset core.capslock" && 698# hello world 699# ' 700# 701# That would be roughly equivalent to 702# 703# test_expect_success 'test core.capslock' ' 704# git config core.capslock true && 705# hello world 706# git config --unset core.capslock 707# ' 708# 709# except that the greeting and config --unset must both succeed for 710# the test to pass. 711# 712# Note that under --immediate mode, no clean-up is done to help diagnose 713# what went wrong. 714 715test_when_finished () { 716 test_cleanup="{ $* 717 } && (exit\"\$eval_ret\"); eval_ret=\$?;$test_cleanup" 718} 719 720# Most tests can use the created repository, but some may need to create more. 721# Usage: test_create_repo <directory> 722test_create_repo () { 723test"$#"=1|| 724 error "bug in the test script: not 1 parameter to test-create-repo" 725 repo="$1" 726mkdir-p"$repo" 727( 728cd"$repo"|| error "Cannot setup test environment" 729"$GIT_EXEC_PATH/git-init""--template=$GIT_BUILD_DIR/templates/blt/">&3 2>&4|| 730 error "cannot run git init -- have you built things yet?" 731mv .git/hooks .git/hooks-disabled 732) ||exit 733} 734 735# This function helps on symlink challenged file systems when it is not 736# important that the file system entry is a symbolic link. 737# Use test_ln_s_add instead of "ln -s x y && git add y" to add a 738# symbolic link entry y to the index. 739 740test_ln_s_add () { 741if test_have_prereq SYMLINKS 742then 743ln-s"$1""$2"&& 744 git update-index --add"$2" 745else 746printf'%s'"$1">"$2"&& 747 ln_s_obj=$(git hash-object -w "$2")&& 748 git update-index --add --cacheinfo120000$ln_s_obj"$2"&& 749# pick up stat info from the file 750 git update-index"$2" 751fi 752} 753 754# This function writes out its parameters, one per line 755test_write_lines () { 756printf"%s\n""$@" 757} 758 759perl () { 760command"$PERL_PATH""$@" 761} 762 763# Is the value one of the various ways to spell a boolean true/false? 764test_normalize_bool () { 765 git -c magic.variable="$1" config --bool magic.variable 2>/dev/null 766} 767 768# Given a variable $1, normalize the value of it to one of "true", 769# "false", or "auto" and store the result to it. 770# 771# test_tristate GIT_TEST_HTTPD 772# 773# A variable set to an empty string is set to 'false'. 774# A variable set to 'false' or 'auto' keeps its value. 775# Anything else is set to 'true'. 776# An unset variable defaults to 'auto'. 777# 778# The last rule is to allow people to set the variable to an empty 779# string and export it to decline testing the particular feature 780# for versions both before and after this change. We used to treat 781# both unset and empty variable as a signal for "do not test" and 782# took any non-empty string as "please test". 783 784test_tristate () { 785ifeval"test x\"\${$1+isset}\"= xisset" 786then 787# explicitly set 788eval" 789 case\"\$$1\"in 790 '')$1=false ;; 791 auto) ;; 792 *)$1=\$(test_normalize_bool \$$1 || echo true);; 793 esac 794 " 795else 796eval"$1=auto" 797fi 798} 799 800# Exit the test suite, either by skipping all remaining tests or by 801# exiting with an error. If "$1" is "auto", we then we assume we were 802# opportunistically trying to set up some tests and we skip. If it is 803# "true", then we report a failure. 804# 805# The error/skip message should be given by $2. 806# 807test_skip_or_die () { 808case"$1"in 809 auto) 810 skip_all=$2 811 test_done 812;; 813 true) 814 error "$2" 815;; 816*) 817 error "BUG: test tristate is '$1' (real error:$2)" 818esac 819} 820 821# The following mingw_* functions obey POSIX shell syntax, but are actually 822# bash scripts, and are meant to be used only with bash on Windows. 823 824# A test_cmp function that treats LF and CRLF equal and avoids to fork 825# diff when possible. 826mingw_test_cmp () { 827# Read text into shell variables and compare them. If the results 828# are different, use regular diff to report the difference. 829local test_cmp_a= test_cmp_b= 830 831# When text came from stdin (one argument is '-') we must feed it 832# to diff. 833local stdin_for_diff= 834 835# Since it is difficult to detect the difference between an 836# empty input file and a failure to read the files, we go straight 837# to diff if one of the inputs is empty. 838iftest -s"$1"&&test -s"$2" 839then 840# regular case: both files non-empty 841 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_a <"$1" 842 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_b <"$2" 843eliftest -s"$1"&&test"$2"= - 844then 845# read 2nd file from stdin 846 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_a <"$1" 847 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_b 848 stdin_for_diff='<<<"$test_cmp_b"' 849eliftest"$1"= - &&test -s"$2" 850then 851# read 1st file from stdin 852 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_a 853 mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ test_cmp_b <"$2" 854 stdin_for_diff='<<<"$test_cmp_a"' 855fi 856test -n"$test_cmp_a"&& 857test -n"$test_cmp_b"&& 858test"$test_cmp_a"="$test_cmp_b"|| 859eval"diff -u\"\$@\"$stdin_for_diff" 860} 861 862# $1 is the name of the shell variable to fill in 863mingw_read_file_strip_cr_ () { 864# Read line-wise using LF as the line separator 865# and use IFS to strip CR. 866local line 867while: 868do 869if IFS=$'\r'read -r -d $'\n' line 870then 871# good 872 line=$line$'\n' 873else 874# we get here at EOF, but also if the last line 875# was not terminated by LF; in the latter case, 876# some text was read 877iftest -z"$line" 878then 879# EOF, really 880break 881fi 882fi 883eval"$1=\$$1\$line" 884done 885}