Re: run_locale_utils.sh

[Martin Sebor]

Farid Zaripov wrote:

  I can't understand what does the line "test -z "`echo $it | grep .cm`"
;" in function below?

check_locale_m()
{
    printf "Checking \"locale -m\" output..." >$dbgout
    loc_m_out=`${locale} -m`
    for it in $loc_m_out; do
        assertions=`expr $assertions + 1`
        if test -z "`echo $it | grep .cm`" ; then
            echo " incorrect." >$dbgout
            echo "ERROR: \"locale -m\" failed."  >$dbgout
            echo >$dbgout
            failedassertions=`expr $failedassertions + 1`
        fi;
    done;                                               
    echo " correct." >$dbgout
}

  I suppose that in command 'grep .cm' ".cm" is a regular expression and
grep utility should print lines that contains <anychar>cm?

My guess is that whoever wrote it (cough, Liviu, cough) meant
a literal period, not just any character (i.e., grep "\.cm")
and the expression was supposed to look for the .cm file suffix
(where .cm presumably stands for Character Map).

If that's correct the regular expression should look for ".cm"
at the end each string, i.e., "\.c

  On my machine on Windows locale -m produces:
ANSI_X3.110-1983
...

[...]

  I not see the lines that matches to the ".cm"  regexp. And because of
this
the sanity check fails.

I don't know why. We'd have to ask the original author if he
still remembers -- Liviu?

Martin