Re: [PATCH] Add test case for ls-files --with-head

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

quoted

seq is not universally available. Can we have that as

for i in 0 1 2 3 4; do
	for j in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do
		> sub/file-$i$j
		echo file-$i$j >> expected
	done
done

Or as

	i=1
	while test $i -le 50
	do
		num=$(printf %04d $i)
		> sub/file-$num
		echo file-$num >> expected
		i=$(($i+1))
	done

This version should be as portable,

Huh?  It uses the conceivably-not-builtin "test" (something which
_you_ picked as something to complain about in a patch of mine where
it was not used in an inner loop) on every iteration, it uses printf
and it uses $((...))  arithmetic expansion.  Whereas the proposal by
Johannes works fine even on prehistoric shell versions.  So the "as
portable" enough moniker is surely weird.

with the benefit that it is easier to change for different start and
end values.

Correct.  But why would we want those here?

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