On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> It was trivial: printf does not necessarily support \xHH hexadecimal
>> escapes.
>
> Thanks for catching that. I looked and found one other problem of that kind.
> I tried running the tests on Solaris and AIX and found
Jim Meyering wrote:
Hah! TIL head -N and yes are not portable. Thank you.
I've been spoiled/corrupted by writing coreutils tests for so long.
I would prefer to continue to use "yes" via the following, at least
in the first test. That way is clearer. In the second, I could go either
way, since yo
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> Hah! TIL head -N and yes are not portable. Thank you.
>> I've been spoiled/corrupted by writing coreutils tests for so long.
>>
>> I would prefer to continue to use "yes" via the following, at least
>> in the first tes
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>
>>> Hah! TIL head -N and yes are not portable. Thank you.
>>> I've been spoiled/corrupted by writing coreutils tests for so long.
>>>
>>> I would prefer to continu
