Vin Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Yes, I agree that the problem is odd. I think it has to do with Sun's
| sed. Are you using GNU sed by any chance? In any case, inside the
| perm test, this line:
|
| set - `echo "$tests"|tr -d '\012'|sed 's/^ *//;s/ *:/:/g;s/: */:/g'`
|
| results in no arguments being set.
|
| Here is the output you requested:
Thanks! And for the analysis.
I *am* using GNU sed.
Here's the patch:
* tests/mkdir/perm: Add an `echo' so that the input to the sed command
is NL-terminated. Otherwise, Solaris' /bin/sed generates no output.
Reported by Vin Shelton.
Index: tests/mkdir/perm
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/fileutils/tests/mkdir/perm,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -p -r1.7 perm
--- tests/mkdir/perm 2000/11/11 13:34:51 1.7
+++ tests/mkdir/perm 2000/11/13 23:56:58
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ for p in empty -p; do
old_IFS=$IFS
IFS=':'
- set - `echo "$tests"|tr -d '\012'|sed 's/^ *//;s/ *:/:/g;s/: */:/g'`
+ set - `(echo "$tests"|tr -d '\012'; echo)|sed 's/^ *//;s/ *:/:/g;s/: */:/g'`
IFS=$old_IFS
while :; do
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