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
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